Category: The Tarzan Files
Waitsel Smith: Tarzan – Best Action Character Ever, but Is He the Ideal Man?
Every once in awhile my incessant googling leads me someplace interesting, and today it landed me on the website of Waitsel Smith, where he has a single pretty damned glorious […]
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Tarzan as a Demigod of the Forest? ERB’s Favorite Description and What it Reveals
Much has been made of Tarzan as the prototype for what would become the Superhero in the pulps and comics. “Without Tarzan, there could be no Batman” is one way of […]
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“Tarzan and the Light of Knowledge” — by Cynthia Sheppard is just brilliant
Every once in awhile you come across something that is so right and true and beautiful that it stops you in your tracks and gives you goosebumps. That just happened […]
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Pop Culture 101: When the Beatles Landed in America, “Tarzan” ruled the Bookstores
So, okay, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books were all the rage in 1912 to the 1940’s. That’s pretty cool, as far as I’m concerned. But when I find myself saying that to millenial […]
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Sleeping Giant: “Riding a Hot Trailer, Tarzan Swings Back Into Movies”
Kirsten Smith has written a very nice article that includes quotes from Jim Sullos at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. You only get one chance to make a first impression, or […]
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Legend of Tarzan: Scott Mendelson’s Commentary on Forbes Provides Food For Thought
Scott Mendelson is one of the more astute and fair-minded observers out there. His work on John Carter was some of the best I came across during that episode […]
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Legend of Tarzan: Roundup of 50 Links to Online Coverage of Release of First Stills
Here are links to the English language media coverage thus far of the release of Legend of Tarzan tills yesterday by Warner Brothers. ‘Legend of Tarzan‘: First Look at Alexander […]
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First Two Stills From Legend of Tarzan — Skarsgard, Robbie, as Tarzan and Jane
At long, long last Warner Brothers has unveiled the first two stills from the Legend of Tarzan via a USA Today article that just appeared. Both images are credited to Jonathan […]
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Pan is as big a disaster for WB as John Carter was for Disney; $150M film brings in $15M Opening Weekend
One would think that no marketing campaign could be as clumsy and tone deaf as Disney’s John Carter campaign, but then along comes AJoe Wright’s Pan, distributed by Warner Brothers […]
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At last! A Tarzan 2016 Test Screening Viewer Gives David Yates a Solid Thumbs Up and Leaks Intriguing Details [Updates]
At last, it has finally happened — someone who saw a test screening of David Yates’ TARZAN has leaked some fascinating and detailed observations. There is of course no way to 100 […]
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The Box Office Tragedy of WB’s last Tarzan Movie, Plus the Pan Box Office Disaster, Define WB’s Challenge for Tarzan 2016
Pan opened with a disastrous $15.5M in Domestic U.S. Box Office. How bad is that? Well, Pan cost $150M to make and did $15.5M; John Carter cost $267M to make […]
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Uh oh, here it comes: The Tarzan Negativity Narrative has begun. What will WB do to Counter It?
Here comes that sinking feeling again. In a flash, it suddenly looks like Warner Brothers’ efforts to have calm and positive rollout of Tarzan have just taken a significant hit with the […]
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Fans Hoping For a Successful Tarzan 2016 Need to Go to These Negative Articles and Comment
Warner Brothers and Tarzan have just taken a significant hit in the first battle to establish a favorable narrative for Tarzan 2016. Establishing a favorable narrative is hugely important; we […]