A Sneak Peek Into the Not-So-Distant Future
When Disney launched its Tarzan picture in the 1990s, the figure of Tarzan was already well-established in popular culture. Tarzan of the Apes, a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, featured him as a character. It’s possible that you were unaware that Burroughs predicted the picture in 1936.
It should be an animated feature picture in particular, according to him, and it should “match Disney perfection” in terms of the final product. The fact that manufacturing began in 1995, more than 60 years after the first projection, indicates that it was not a terrible forecast.