The Legend of Tarzan

It's surely impossible not to be familiar with the story of Tarzan. The story of the wild-at-heart man, raised as a small boy in the jungle by ape who enters Edwardian society and falls in love with a British beauty, it first captured the public imagination when it was published as a book in 1912 by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Since 1912, the story has been endlessly adapted, first and most notably to comics, and thrust onto TV and the silver screen. This summer, David Yates, director of the final Harry Potter films, is adding to this towering pile of adaptations, with his own star-studded reimagining.



The Legend of Tarzan returns to the big screen with a shimmering CGI jungle with an equally glittering cast that includes Margot Robbie as Jane, Alexander Skarsgård as Tarzan and Samuel L. Jackson.

Yates takes the story forward, to a time when Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the sinister activities at a mining encampment. Speaking to Culture Whisper, Yates said that despite being based on an Edwardian classic, The Legend of Tarzan tackles issues that still fascinate us today: our inner beasts, the environment and the struggle between good and bad.