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Still tallying its staggering loss on Pan, Warner Bros. is said to be facing an unusual challenge on its next mega-budgeted fantasy reboot: Tarzan. With the film still needing considerable work before its July 1 release date, director David Yates has started shooting his next Warners project, J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Warners sources say the move from Tarzan to Beasts always was planned. "While it's somewhat unusual, we are extremely comfortable with the production timelines, which were set in advance, and have total confidence in the skill of David Yates — who is a four-time Harry Potter director — to deliver both of these pictures," says a Warners executive (Yates declined to comment).
But one source involved with the project is concerned that Tarzan, with a budget of around $180 million and packed with visual effects, isn't getting the attention it needs. "The schedule of the J.K. Rowling movie got in the way of an appropriate postproduction schedule on Tarzan," says this person. "Why would you ever crowd a director into starting a movie before his other movie is properly finished?"
Sources say early test screenings of Tarzan, an adventure starring Alexander Skarsgard of HBO's True Blood as the vine-swinger and Margot Robbie as Jane, did not go well.
), the cheapjack production values would have been more bearable, but as it stands, this is incredibly weak stuff, with only the luminous beauty of Margot Robbie really standing out. If I want to watch another movie with a man swinging through a CGI canopy, I'll stick with Disney's terrific Jungle Book from earlier this year, and if I want a decent Tarzan(c) movie (yes, the title actually has an on-screen copyright (c) symbol after it! 
), I'll watch Greystoke (with a terrific John Scott score) or the 1999 Disney production.
