I've seen a lot of the movies and used to watch the television series..the best of the bunch being the Christopher Lambert film...yet I haven't read the books, I've seen takes on the character where he lives in a land of the lost jungle...fighting dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures..it may have been a comic I'm not really sure...anyways it would be interesting to see that version of the story..instead of taking him out of that dangerous environment I'd rather see him getting chased by T-Rexes, battling groups of amazon women and gun toting poachers ...lol

I hope this is NOT based of Disney's works/

From Kobe steak to Oscar Mayer.

Hmm...A Tarzan remake. Looks meh.

The original was awesome! No remake necessary.

I quite enjoyed Helsing.

For whatever ineffable reason, I love watching Stephen Sommers in behind-the-scenes featurettes; I would love to see a television series of behind-the-scenes featurettes where he goes all tangential on things he had no involvement with - like Gossip Girl.

i thougt van helsing was a good movie too buuuut...some remakes just shouldnt be done.. as for tarzan? nahhhh.is it me or..does that tarzan pic look like it was taken from TARZAN:THE GAY MUSICAL?? yikes peter where'd u get that pic from lmao!and as for tarzan battling dinos..well,that does sound better but they do kind of have a movie coming out like that by the name of TUROK..if..they're still making that.ANY movie with dinos i gota see!

This is a great fit for Sommers, if only because every one of his movies features his hero swinging on something. Now the whole movie can be swinging!

Who the hell cares about Tarzan? What a crap story to begin with.

Everyone abandon all hope!

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Oh, it's Tarzan... Carry on.

(The Hobbit > Tarzan) < The Dark Knight

Fanboy math.

Sommer's did not direct The Scorpion King.

Stephen Sommers has the potential to deliver this but he's made overused CGI and weak humor his signature. The concept of Van Helsing made me drool when I heard it ("Hugh Jackman & Kate Beckinsale fight Dracula, Wolfman & Frankenstein's monster!? How could this not be cool?"). Unfortunately, the gap between concept and final product proved to be a greater distance than originally thought.

It would seem Tarzan could go like the Batman films. I mean that in the sense that it could be wild wacky cheesy (Adam West-era), cartoonishly moody (Tim Burton), hyper-stylized and ridiculously flashy (Joel Schumacher) or darkly realistic (Chris Nolan).

I'm hoping for more of the latter mixed with some mysterious jungle legends (Lost tribes / Giant beasts/ crumbling temples) Sort of a Greystoke-meets-Peter-Jackson's-King Kong.

Sommers needs to reboot his career, a change in direction would be for the better. I hope the days of Batman Forever & Van Helsing are long gone.

Um, Peter, according to your own definition, Stephen Sommers is not a "hack".

He always writes, and now produces his own stuff and as for The Mummy, he wasn't hired to make the movie Universal wanted to make, he approached Universal with his own idea and convinced them to let him make the film. That is in no way a hack, sorry.

Also, he didn't direct The Scorpion King, as someone else said. But he did produce and write it.

If you aren't brave enough to follow the real book and go for the 'R' rating with a Trazan movie then you are just a hack like everyone else who does not have the courage to tell the story as it was. There is no 'Family value' in Tarzan and should not try and have it both ways. Stop making CRAP. Tell it like it is...Like Zach Snyder is doing and not crap on great creator's works.