Vine-Swinging Action In 'Tarzan 3D' [Trailer + Pictures]

Now that Germany have had their fun with a Tarzan trailer released almost a month ago, it’s time for the UK trailer to cause a stir. In it, Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke star as Tarzan and Jane Porter, while Trevor St. John plays the evil CEO of Greystroke Energies, John Greystroke.

There are some updates from the original Edgar Rice Burroughs story; for instance, our jungle heroes - billionaire adventurers – are killed in a plane crash in the 2013 legend, while the movie’s villain is Greystroke, the man who took over the company from Tarzan’s dead parents.

“It’s so contemporary and modern. It’s tough to recreate Tarzan, especially they’ve made so many of them and then Disney made their animated one,” explained Lutz, who plays the adult version of our protagonist, to About.com.

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“This one’s motion capture which was so much fun to work on. No hair, no makeup. You’re just wearing a Power Ranger suit with taped balls on you and dots on your face with 60 cameras all around you.”

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Unfortunately, the original Tarzan call is trademarked, so Lutz and his team had to think something up, but he did get to swing around like the iconic jungle man likes to do. "I swang. Oh yeah, we had to make our own Tarzan call because the original one’s trademarked, he explained.

“So we had to change it just a little bit but that was fun. I’ve been a huge fan of Tarzan ever since I was a little kid, on the farm just messing around on the farm. Then swinging, we had ropes that we would swing and they’ll digitally put in vines.”

The film is directed by Reinhard Klooss while he, Jessica Postigo and Yoni Brenner wrote the script. It hits cinemas on May 2nd 2014.

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