Tarzan (franchise)

This article is about works featuring Disney's version of Tarzan. For the original book series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, see Tarzan (book series). For other adaptations, see Tarzan in film and other non-print media and Tarzan in comics.

Disney's Tarzan
Created by	Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Feature Animation Edgar Rice Burroughs (original characters)
Original work	Tarzan (1999)
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Based on	Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Films and television
Film(s)	Tarzan (1999)
Animated series	The Legend of Tarzan (2001–2003)
Direct-to-video	Tarzan & Jane (2003) Tarzan II (2006)
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 , based on the character Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Films

Film	U.S release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Story by	Producer(s)
Tarzan	June 18, 1999	Kevin Lima and Chris Buck	Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White	Stephen Anderson, Mark D. Kennedy, Carole Holliday, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Don Dougherty, Ed Gombert, Randy Haycock, Don Hall, Kevin L. Harkey, Glen Keane, Burny Mattinson, Frank Nissen, John Norton, Jeff Snow, Michael Surrey, Christopher J. Ure, Mark Walton, Stevie Wermers, Kelly Wightman and John Ramirez	Bonnie Arnold
Tarzan & Jane	February 14, 2003	Victor Cook and Steve Loter	Mirith J. Colao, John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, Jim Peterson and Jess Winfield		Steve Loter
Tarzan II	January 31, 2006	Brian Smith	Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White		Carolyn Bates, Jim Kammerud and Leslie Hough

Tarzan (1999)

Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. 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 (2003)

Tarzan & Jane is a Disney direct-to-video film released on February 14, 2003, sequel to the 1999 animated feature Tarzan , and uses three unaired episodes of the film's corresponding television series, The Legend of Tarzan . The film is set one year after the events of the first film.

Tarzan II (2006)

Tarzan II (also known as Tarzan II: The Legend Begins) is a 2006 direct-to-video animated film and follow-up to the 1999 Walt Disney Feature Animation film Tarzan . It was released on January 31, 2006. Taking place during Tarzan's youth and before his adulthood, the film follows Tarzan's adventure to discover who he really is.

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. Tony Goldwyn and Brian Blessed were the only cast members to reprise their roles in the game. 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.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 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!

Main article: 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.

• "You'll Be in My Heart"
• "Strangers Like Me"
• "Son of Man"
• "Two Worlds"

Cast and characters

List indicators

This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in more than two films in the series.

• An empty grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed.
•  ^Y indicates a younger version of the character.

Characters	Main films			Television series
	Tarzan	Tarzan & Jane	Tarzan II	The Legend of Tarzan
	1999	2003	2006	2001–2003
Tarzan	Jack Black Brian Blessed (Tarzan yell)	Jack Black	Jeremy Suarez	Jack Black
	Haley Joel Osment Y			Debi Derryberry Y
Jane Porter	Leslie Mann	Leslie Mann		Leslie Mann
Terk	Candi Milo	Andrea Martin	Candi Milo	Andrea Martin
Tantor	Bill Fagerbakke	Bill Fagerbakke	Sandy Fox	Bill Fagerbakke
	Sandy Fox Y			Sandy Fox Y
Kala	Allison Janney	Allison Janney	Allison Janney	Allison Janney
Kerchak	Patrick Warburton		Patrick Warburton
Professor Archimedes Q. Porter	Gary Oldman	Gary Oldman		Gary Oldman
William Clayton	Patrick Stewart			Character is mute
Sabor	John Goodman		John Goodman
Flynt	Tom Kenny			Tom Kenny
Mungo	Dom DeLuise			Dom DeLuise
Nura and Sheeta		J.K. Simmons		J.K. Simmons
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		Bernie Mac		Bernie Mac
Hugo and Hooft		Character is mute		Dave Thomas Joe Flaherty
Zugor			Ed Asner
Mama Gunda			Cloris Leachman
Uto and Kago			Dennis Haysbert Jon Polito
Henry				Alexis Denisof
Dania				Kathy Najimy
Samuel T. Philander				Craig Ferguson
Queen La				Wanda Sykes
Moyo				Neil Patrick Harris
Tublat				Rip Torn
Hobson				Jim Cummings
Greenley		Lacey Chabert		Lacey Chabert
Eleanore		Jennifer Tilly		Jennifer Tilly
Hazel		Carolyn Lawrence		Carolyn Lawrence
Zutho				Jason Alexander
Colonel Staguait				Jim Cummings

References

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.

External links

• Disney's Tarzan at MobyGames
• Disney's Tarzan (Game Boy Color) at MobyGames
• Disney's Tarzan Untamed at MobyGames
• Disney's Tarzan: Return to the Jungle at MobyGames