"Tarzan" Movie Shows What is Wrong With Hollywood

The Warner Brothers' Live Action version of Tarzan is finally in production.  The project started in 2003 and it has taken over a decade for production to start.


That stat alone should tell you there is something wrong in Hollywood.  It should not take over ten years between a studio buying into a proposed movie and production starting.  That's a ten year money pit.


Then there's the plot: After living in London for several years, Tarzan is hired by Queen Victoria to investigate  a shady mining company.

Oh, goody.  A cut-and-paste environmental/evil-corporation plot line.


Want to know how generic that plot is?  Try replacing "After living in London for several years, Tarzan..." with "Sherlock Holmes..."  or "Allan Quatermain".  As an alternative, move the time period and have the investigation being done by an FBI agent that is part Sioux.


It's like the movie companies have pre-made scripts with certain portions left blank: protagonist, time-period and the evil corporate entity.


But it will be in 3D.  (In other words, a "blockbuster" with lots of nifty special effects and loud explosions.)