THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alexander Skarsgård (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), Djimon Hounsou (Fast & Furious 7), John Hurt (Alien), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!), Casper Crump (Almost Perfect), Hadley Fraser (Les Miserables), Simon Russell Beale (The Deep Blue Sea)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), director, producer; Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) and Adam Cozad (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit), writers; David Barron (Frank), Alan Riche (Southpaw) and Jerry Weintraub (Ocean’s Eleven), producers; Rupert Gregson-Williams (Hotel Rwanda), composer; Henry Braham (Nanny McPhee), cinematographer; Mark Day (Ex Machina), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

It’s been years since the man known as Tarzan (Skarsgård), raised by gorillas in the jungles of Africa, left the place he’s known as home all his life and settled in to an aristocratic life as John Clayton III, along with his wife Jane (Robbie). He is invited to return to the Congo Free State as a trade emissary for the House of Commons, but when he discovers that he’s merely a pawn for corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom (Waltz), he must return to his animalistic existence in order to defeat him…

WHEN’S IT OUT?

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic character is given the big-screen treatment once more, with director David Yates bringing a whole new vision of the story that captured the imaginations of millions.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY 2016

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