The Legend of Tarzan Starring Alexander Skarsgård Tarzan is a character I have been exposed to repeatedly over the years. His popularity has been constant for more than a century and the character has appeared in movies, on television and in books and comic books. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the story of Tarzan has been tweaked over the years in various entertainment genres, but I prefer the more feral Tarzan as opposed to the cultured one. In any event, the 2016 action-adventure film The Legend of Tarzan combines the feral and the cultured man into one, with some success. Alexander Skarsg�rd portrays the titular character whose real name is John Clayton III, the fifth Earl of Greystoke. As an adult, he lives in London with wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and has seemingly left his old jungle life behind. For those unfamiliar with the origin of Tarzan, his parents perished in the African jungle when he was a baby and he was taken in by an ape mother, Kala, who raised him as ...