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USA Today has debuted the new poster and some photos from the upcoming THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, starring Alexander Skarsgard as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The film is being directed by David Yeates, who is taking some time away from Hogwarts and the world of the HARRY POTTER films (he is directing the upcoming FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM) to dive deep into the jungle in this new adventure.
While we might expect an origin story, Yates is taking a different approach to the material, and to the exploration of Tarzan himself. The story opens about 10 years after Tarzan has left the jungle, and is living happily as a gentleman in London with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie). The story will see him returning to the Congo as an emissary of the British Parliament, and he must rediscover his former self when Jane and his companions are put in danger.
“It’s almost the opposite of the classic tale, where it’s about taming the beast,” says Skarsgård, 39. “This is about a man who’s holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out.”
The film also stars Djimon Honsou, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz as the villain, Captain Leon Rom. Interistingly, the story seems to be set agains the historical events of Belgium's King Leopold II and the genocide he had committed in Africa in the late 1800s.
Check out the first pics below. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN hits theaters on July 1, 2016.
What do you guys think?
