By Tony Hicks. One of the exciting things about seeing trailers for “The Legend of Tarzan” was how much of an update it looked like compared to efforts from the past 40 years.

Tarzan's Adoption. In The Legend of Tarzan, we see Lord and Lady Clayton marooned in Africa with their infant son, John Clayton III.In the film, after the apes kill Tarzan's father, Kala adopts ...

Premiering tonight, “Tarzan” turns John Clayton into the scion of a rich and powerful Gotham family, lost with his parents at age 6 in the jungles of Africa.

He promises Rom a boatload of diamonds, part of the natural environment, in return for Clayton/Tarzan. This conveniently will pay off the shady Belgium King’s large debt.

In the film, Tarzan doesn't start out wearing a loincloth. Instead, he's John Clayton -- dressed in clothes and at home with his wife Jane. "It's almost the opposite of the old movies and the ...

He promises Rom a boatload of diamonds, part of the natural environment, in return for Clayton/Tarzan. This conveniently will pay off the shady Belgium King’s large debt.

One of the exciting things about seeing trailers for “The Legend of Tarzan” was how much of an update it looked like compared with past efforts over the last 40 years.

Tarzan doesn’t meet another like him until the audience is introduced to Jane (Minnie Driver), Clayton (Brian Blessed) and Professor Porter (Nigel Hawthorne). While a weirdly forced attraction begins ...

Clayton agrees and his wife insists that she accompany him because she misses Africa. When they arrive, a man named Rom, who works for Leopold, attacks their village and captures Tarzan and Jane.

To get some perspective on “Tarzan,” which premieres Sunday on the WB and relates the ape man’s adventures in the contemporary concrete jungle its natives call “Manhattan,” I watched ...

Tarzan—John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, if you please—is played by Alexander Skarsgård, an appealing actor who has honored his craft by subjecting his body to what must have been brutally ...