Tarzan
Short description
Tarzan is a German-American animated adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's story. A plane crash in the African jungle leaves a married couple dead and their young son stranded. Gorillas raise the boy, and he grows into a strong, agile young man. When outsiders arrive, he meets Jane Porter, the daughter of an anthropologist, and forms a bond with her. At the same time, the company once run by his parents, Greystoke Energies, has fallen under new leadership, and a mercenary force sent into the jungle threatens both the gorillas and the newcomers. Tarzan must protect the world that raised him while confronting the truth about his origins.
The film is directed by Reinhard Klooss, who wrote the screenplay with Yoni Brenner and Jessica Postigo and produced it with Robert Kulzer. It follows Klooss's Animals United (2010) and precedes Pets United (2019). The voice cast is led by Kellan Lutz as Tarzan and Spencer Locke as Jane, with Les Bubb, Joe Cappelletti, Brian Huskey and Mark Deklin among the credited performers, 21 in all.
Released in October 2013, the film runs 94 minutes. It earned about 44 million dollars worldwide, a modest return. Audiences were unenthusiastic: on IMDb it holds 4.8 out of 10 from roughly 13,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.7 out of 10 from about 632 votes. A critics' rating of 4.5 out of 10 from 30 reviews places it below even the higher of those two audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The first book about the adventures of Tarzan was published in 1914. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote about 20 novels about the king of the jungle in total.
- The first Tarzan film appeared in 1918. Since then, about 100 films and television films have been made based on the book. The novel about Tarzan, along with the story of Count Dracula, has become one of the most filmed works in world literature.
- Motion capture technology was used for filming, in which all scenes on the planet “Pandora” in the film “Avatar” (2009) were filmed. During filming, the actors wore special tight-fitting suits covered with 68 tiny sensors, the information from which was read and processed by 60 infrared cameras.
- Four different actors played Tarzan at different ages.
- The entire film took three years to make. Filming was carried out in four stages: first, storyboards were created with 5000 illustrations, then a semi-real film was made using motion capture technology with actors and stunt performers. Then the editing process began, which lasted a whole year, as the recorded data was transformed into 3D characters. And only after that did the animation process itself begin, which took another year. 350 people worked on the film.
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