The character of Tarzan has been around for over 100 years, ever since Edgar Rice Burroughs first published his novel Tarzan of the Apes back in 1914. Through twenty-five sequels and countless comics, films and TV series, the wild man has managed to live on in pop culture all this time. Tarzan was raised by apes in the African jungles. He embodies the classic hero archetype, while largely being untainted by the larger world. Later this week, Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing their addition to the Tarzan legacy, "The Legend of Tarzan." The film actually takes place years after Tarzan, played by Alexander Skarsgård, has left the jungles of Africa for an aristocratic life in the United Kingdom. Tarzan is living as John Clayton with his wife, Jane Porter. He?s then invited back to the Congo Free State to serve as a trade emissary, unaware that he is a pawn in a plan masterminded by Belgian Captain Léon Rom.
