Maybe the Tarzan-Akut fight ‘cause that was quite tricky. We were bringing Africa to us, and it was a challenge to make that all feel believable.
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YATES: The whole movie was quite challenging, just because we weren’t filming in Africa. Was there a moment or an action sequence that was particularly challenging for you to put together so seamlessly? In Tarzan, the humans interact with the CGI animals so seamlessly. I haven’t given it much thought yet, but I will. There are little scenes that we’ve taken out, bits and pieces. By the time we tuned it, and then I added that scene, it balanced out.Īre there any special features that you’re already planning to include on the Blu-ray release? That’s probably why the length didn’t go down too much. And so, we added a scene, primarily to build that up a little bit. That was one of the things we were trying to pull away from a bit, but the minute they saw Tarzan as a kid, or Tarzan with the Mangani, it seemed to fulfill some classic element of the story that they liked. But once we showed it to an audience, they just really loved the origins of the story and that surprised us. In the original version of the film, there were a couple of lovely flashback sequences of Jane and Tarzan that still exist in the movie. What we did do, actually, in the process of making the movie was that we added some things. I just want to see if the film feels like it’s working.ĭid you have to cut any storylines out, or was it just about trimming what we see? Every time we would do a cut, he writes a little number down, so he’s got a log of everything, but I never really pay much attention. My editor, Mark Day, has got this lovely chart in our editing room. It’s just a slightly tighter, neater version of it. In fact, I would argue that the movie that we’ve got now is just a slightly more refined version of the movie we started with, despite all of the recruits and testing that we went through. I might be making this up, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t hugely longer than the movie now. YATES: Do you know what? I can’t remember how long that first cut was. How long was your first cut of the film, and how much of a challenge was it for you to get it down to what we see now? So, in trying to save her, he was actually saving himself ‘cause he couldn’t live without her. What was really interesting to me was that, unless Tarzan saved her, he would not be complete and he would not survive without her.
We figured that, if Tarzan hadn’t have gotten to her and we’d put another reel on, of just Jane and Rom, Rom would be toast, by the end of it. Margot and I would often joke that it wasn’t actually Tarzan saving Jane. And ultimately, it was the love story between Tarzan and Jane. I liked the fact that they adopted him, really, and made him feel like he belonged. Every time I walked on that set, both the sound guy and I, and a lot of the crew felt it, there was a really beautiful atmosphere. I found all of those scenes with the Kuba moving, when you see them sitting around the fire, talking about the legend of Tarzan and singing. And I like the notion that, ultimately, home was with the family and the tribe who embraced him and gave him a home when he needed it most. I like the notion of a character, as well, that has to figure out where home is. What was it about this take on the story of Tarzan that satisfied those things for you?ĭAVID YATES: Well, it was the love story. He also talked about what he thinks Harry Potter fans will be most excited about with his next film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and how things are going with the editing and post-production process, with the film is due out in theaters on November 18 th.Ĭollider: You’ve said that, after doing the Harry Potter films, you were looking for another project that was epic and had action and spectacle. When he is invited back to the Congo under the guise of being a guest of Parliament, Tarzan quickly learns that he is a pawn in a murderous plot of greed and revenge that was masterminded by the King of Belgium’s envoy, Leon Rom ( Christoph Waltz), and he will stop at nothing to protect those that he loves.ĭuring this exclusive phone interview with Collider, filmmaker David Yates talked about why this take on the story of Tarzan appealed to him, how this final version is not that far off of his first cut, what he added into the film, deleted bits and pieces for the Blu-ray, and the trickiest scene to put together. From director David Yates, the action-adventure epic The Legend of Tarzan picks up with John Clayton, the man once known as Tarzan ( Alexander Skarsgård) after he’s left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life with his beloved wife, Jane ( Margot Robbie).
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