Well, I await this film with mixed emotions. Normal when a film I've been hoping for for most of my life is coming out. But then I think of almost a century of bad Tarzan productions (and Disney was one of the most criminal, to a fan of Burroughs' writing) and my spirits go right into the toilet. Then I think of the few other Burroughs adaptations, At the Earth's Core ard The Land That Time Forgot (screenplay by Michael Moorcock, who has been known to actually write entertaining fiction) and things get worse.
The director is famous for Finding Nemo and Wall-E, two flicks I never got around to seeing (the first because I'm over 12, the second because my film budget that year was even worse than this year). He claims to be a fan of the books since the year Star Wars hit the big screen, but he says he was introduced by the Marvel Comics adaptation, which I thought lacklustre compared to the DC version earlier in the 70s. He says he waited for a movie for three decades and nothing happened. I've been waiting since since a decade previous to that, having first read the novels the year Star Trek hit the small screen.
One line in the trailer turns my entrails to water. "Our world is under attack". Nothing like that in the Burroughs novels.
Well, we'll see. Atlas Shrugged Part One was a hell of a lot better than I expected, but I hadn't been waiting for that as anxiously or as long.
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest". -- Denis Diderot