Tarzan (franchise)

Disney's *Tarzan*
Disney's Tarzan
Original work	Tarzan; by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Owners	Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (copyright holder to Tarzan-related properties); The Walt Disney Company (licensed to)
Films and television
Film(s)	Tarzan (1999)
Animated series	The Legend of Tarzan (2001–2003)
Direct-to-video	Tarzan & Jane (2002); Tarzan II (2005);
Theatrical presentations
Musical(s)	Tarzan Rocks! (1999); Tarzan: The Musical (2006);
Games
Video game(s)	Disney's Tarzan (1999); Disney's Tarzan Activity Center (1999); Disney's Tarzan: Untamed (2001); Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle (2002); Kingdom Hearts (2002); Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure (2003);
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1999)
Miscellaneous
Theme park attraction(s)	Tarzan's Treehouse (1999–present); Tarzan Rocks! (1999–2006);
	* Work where this franchise's characters or settings appeared as part of a crossover.

Tarzan is a Disney media franchise that commenced in 1999 with the theatrical release of the film Tarzan.

Films

Tarzan

Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 37th Disney animated feature film, it is based on the story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major motion picture version of the story Tarzan property to be animated.

Tarzan & Jane

Tarzan & Jane is a Disney direct-to-video film released on July 23, 2002, sequel to the 1999 animated feature Tarzan, and uses three unaired episodes of the film's corresponding television series, The Legend of Tarzan. Tarzan II, a follow-up to the original film, was released in 2005. The film is set one year after the events of the first film.

Tarzan II

Tarzan II (also known as Tarzan II: The Legend Begins) is a 2005 direct-to-video animated film and follow-up to the 1999 Walt Disney Feature Animation film Tarzan. It was released on June 14, 2005.

Television

The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan is an American animated television series created by The Walt Disney Company in 2001, based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The series aired on ABC from July 13 to September 7, 2002 as part of its "Disney's One Saturday Morning" lineup. The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off.

Broadway musical

Tarzan

The original Broadway musical production of Tarzan opened in 2006, directed and designed by Bob Crowley with choreography by Meryl Tankard. The production ran for 35 previews and 486 performances. Subsequently, the show has been staged in several foreign countries and by regional theatres.

Video games

Disney's Tarzan

Disney's Tarzan (also known as Tarzan Action Game) is a platform game developed by Eurocom and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation console in 1999. Konami published the game for its Japanese release. It was also released on the PC and Game Boy Color in 1999, and Nintendo 64 in 2000.

Tarzan: Untamed

Tarzan: Untamed (known as Tarzan: FreeRide in Europe) is a 2001 action-adventure video game released by Ubisoft Montreal for the PlayStation 2 and was a launch title for the GameCube.

Tarzan Jungle Tumble

Tarzan Jungle Tumble is a 2001 platform game developed and released by Disney Interactive for the PC.

Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle

Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle is a 2002 platform game released by Activision for Game Boy Advance. In this game, Tarzan and Terk are lost, and they have to go back to protect the jungle from Queen La.

Disney's Tarzan Activity Center

Disney's Tarzan Activity Center, a 1999 game which is part of Disney's Activity Center series.

Other appearances

Tarzan's home, "Deep Jungle", is a playable world in the Disney/Square Enix video game Kingdom Hearts released for PlayStation 2 in 2002. It does not appear in any subsequent games in the series, save for the game's Final Mix version, due to Square Enix's failure to acquire the required rights from the family of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan, Jane, Tantor, and Terk, in their young forms, appear as playable characters in Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure, developed by Toys for Bob and released for PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Game Boy Advance in 2003.

Theme park attractions

Tarzan's Treehouse

Tarzan's Treehouse is a walk through attraction at Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland. It is styled after the 1999 film Tarzan.

Tarzan Rocks!

Tarzan Rocks! was a musical show that took place in the Theater in the Wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom from 1999 to 2006.^[1] It featured rollerskating monkeys along with Tarzan, Jane and Terk. It also featured songs from the Tarzan film by Phil Collins.^[2] It was replaced by Finding Nemo – The Musical.^[3]

Meet and greets

Tarzan, Jane and Terk all appear at the Disney Parks and Resorts as meetable characters, and can be found in Adventureland, and at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Music

Soundtrack

Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1999 Disney animated film, Tarzan. The songs on the soundtrack were composed by Phil Collins, and the instrumental score by Mark Mancina. The song "You'll Be in My Heart" won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media while the soundtrack album received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. For his contribution to the soundtrack, Collins received an American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist.

Cast and characters

Characters	Main films			Television series
	Tarzan	Tarzan & Jane	Tarzan II	The Legend of Tarzan
	1999	2002	2005	2001-2003
Tarzan	Tony Goldwyn	Michael T. Weiss	Harrison Chad	Michael T. Weiss
Tarzan	Alex D. Linz (young)	Michael T. Weiss	Harrison Chad	Shaun Fleming (young)
Jane Porter	Minnie Driver	Olivia d'Abo		Olivia d'Abo
Terk	Rosie O'Donnell	April Winchell	Brenda Grate	April Winchell
Tantor	Wayne Knight	Jim Cummings	Harrison Fahn	Jim Cummings
Tantor	Taylor Dempsey (young)	Jim Cummings	Harrison Fahn	Taylor Dempsey (young)
Kala	Glenn Close	Susanne Blakeslee	Glenn Close	Susanne Blakeslee
Kerchak	Lance Henriksen		Lance Henriksen
Professor Archimedes Q. Porter	Nigel Hawthorne	Jeff Bennett		Jeff Bennett
William Clayton	Brian Blessed			Character is mute
Sabor	Frank Welker		Frank Welker
Flynt	Erik von Detten			Erik von Detten
Mungo	Jason Marsden			Jason Marden
Nura and Sheeta		Frank Welker		Frank Welker
Johannes Niels		John O'Hurley		John O'Hurley
Marcus		Jim Cummings		Jim Cummings
Robert (Bobby) Canler		Jeff Bennett		Jeff Bennett
Nigel Taylor		Alexis Denisof		Alexis Denisof
Renard Dumont		Rene Auberjonois		Rene Auberjonois
Hugo and Hooft		Character is mute		Dave Thomas Joe Flaherty
Zugor			George Carlin
Mama Gunda			Estelle Harris
Uto and Kago			Brad Garrett Ron Perlman
Henry				Alexis Denisof
Dania				Kathy Najimy
Samuel T. Philander				Craig Ferguson
Queen La				Diahann Carroll
Moyo				Neil Patrick Harris
Tublat				Keith David
Hobson				Jim Cummings
Greenley		Grey DeLisle		Grey DeLisle
Eleanore		Nicollette Sheridan		Nicollette Sheridan
Hazel		Tara Strong		Tara Strong
Zutho				Jason Alexander
Colonel Staguait				Jim Cummings

References

^ Powers, Scott (January 24, 2006). "Tarzan show ends at Animal Kingdom". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
^ J. Anderson, Jamie (July 9, 1999). "Animal Kingdom Rocks With `Tarzan' Stage Show". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
^ Brown, Sophie (June 19, 2012). "Pixar Week: Finding Nemo: The Musical is a Hidden Gem". Wired. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

External links

[1] Powers, Scott (January 24, 2006). "Tarzan show ends at Animal Kingdom". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

[2] J. Anderson, Jamie (July 9, 1999). "Animal Kingdom Rocks With `Tarzan' Stage Show". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

[3] Brown, Sophie (June 19, 2012). "Pixar Week: Finding Nemo: The Musical is a Hidden Gem". Wired. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

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