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Since King Leopold II of Belgium has plummeted his country into debt in his attempts at building a railway and has now sent an emissary Captain Léon Rom ( Christoph Waltz) to extract the bountiful resources of the land’s diamond mines of Opar and control the region. This iteration of Tarzan’s story is set in the 1880s and opens in the Congo, after the land has been divided up between the UK and Belgium. Director David Yates is hoping to provide some of that with “The Legend of Tarzan”, an entertaining yarn that surprisingly winds up being a suitable gateway introduction to the character. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why so many are unfamiliar with the character’s literary origins – he’s shown up in so many other forms that people have lost where he came from.
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The iconic Ape Man raised was created by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and first appeared in novel form way back in 1914, but the character would go on to be portrayed in countless live-action movies and television series as well as numerous animated iterations, not to mention several radio programs, comic books, toys and video games. I don’t think many people are familiar with the fact that Tarzan was a literary figure long before Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe or Ron Ely slipped into their respective loincloths. Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of action and violence, some sensuality and brief rude dialogue) Produced by: Jerry Weintraub, David Barron, Alan Riche & Tony Ludwig