Merrick here...

Hollywood Reporter says that Stephen Sommers is closing in on a reworking TARZAN for Warners. He'll also co-write with COLLATERAL's Stuart Beattie.

Jerry Weintraub ("Ocean's Eleven") is producing through his Jerry Weintraub Prods. Jessica Goodman and Jesse Ehrman will oversee for the studio.

Guillermo del Toro had been attached to direct a script written by John Collee ("Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World") when the project was announced two years ago. But "The Mummy" director will get his shot now that Del Toro is committed to a four-year stint choreographing dwarves in New Zealand for the MGM-Warner Bros. two-fer of "The Hobbit."

...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.

Beattie has recently been peddling his spec script & concept material based on Eric Nylund 's novel HALO: THE FALL OF REACH. You can find some coverage of that project HERE.

A Stephen Sommers TARZAN is almost as difficult to conjure as, well, a Stephen Sommers G.I. JOE...or a Stephen Sommers anything for that matter. I suspect it'll go something like this...but with better photography: