Italian dev secures Tarzan rights

by Justin McElroy { Oct 10th 2008 at 11:55AM }

"Hey Joystiq, is this post just an excuse to use the video of 'Tarzan Boy,' which you love so very much?" ... Well, yes, dear reader, we loves us some Baltimora. But we're betting some of you would still be interested to hear that Italian developer Twelve has secured the rights to Tarzan from the estate of his creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Twelve says they'll be using Gamebryo, but won't reveal any details beyond that. If we could make two specific requests: More Phil and more Collins.

Tags: tarzan, twelve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

havoc @ Oct 10th 2008 12:08PM

This could be cool if done right.But someone should look into some of edgar rice borroughs other series, like the john carter of mars series or pelucedur (however its spelled) the center of the earth stuff. I was just thinking that some studio should do a graphic novel style Tarzan movie like the 300 guy.

LaughingTarget @ Oct 10th 2008 12:11PM

That guy creeps me out.

EMaster @ Oct 10th 2008 12:45PM

He was a good perfomer tho. Jimmy McShane unfortunately died of AIDS in 95. What a shame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimora

AwesomeTown @ Oct 10th 2008 12:26PM

Good video, really good video. But it's not Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQbZRMLKozk

Dirty @ Oct 10th 2008 12:29PM

Air Keyboard ROCKS!!

AwesomeTown @ Oct 10th 2008 12:39PM

See, he didn't have his keyboard at the time because it was stuck to a wall somewhere.

Dirty @ Oct 10th 2008 12:40PM

Its there and then its gone! Its like MAGIC!!! I wonder how they did that!

Rip Tatermen @ Oct 10th 2008 1:41PM

Dude, no more Journey psych-outs.

jmf @ Oct 10th 2008 1:53PM

This guy makes me mildy uncomfortable

Just Mr ESC. @ Oct 10th 2008 2:04PM

Gay fuel comes into mind.

MuToiD_MaN @ Oct 10th 2008 5:25PM

Real. Masculine. YTMND.

t_m @ Oct 11th 2008 9:25AM

Woah. I'm kind of disturbed.

Tarzan, on the other hand, could be a rocking game.
I used to have a compendium of the old comics/books and they rocked.

The first one is just an awesome book all round, but its the standard story we've all heard, and not that great a basis for a game.

The later books and comics went very Dark Fantasy.. which was a little unexpected.. but a great basis for some awesome video games. It was kinda Conan in the Jungle. Tribes of evil creatures, rescuing mostly naked maidens from giant spider's webs, etc..