Australian actress Margot Robbie will star as 'Jane Porter', the love interest of 'Lord Greystoke', aka 'Tarzan Of The Apes", for Disney's upcoming live-action 3D feature "Tarzan", directed by David Yates, co-starring Alexander Skarsgård ("True Blood") as 'Tarzan', with Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson:
Debuting in the first "Tarzan" novel, "Tarzan of the Apes" (1912), 'Jane Porter', aka 'Jane Clayton Lady Greystoke', an American from Baltimore, Maryland, was the love interest and later the wife of 'Tarzan', mother of their son 'Korak'.
She developed over the course of the series from a conventional damsel in distress who must be rescued from various perils...
"...to an educated, competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the jungles of Africa.
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"...'John Clayton' is born in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa to a marooned couple from England,' John and Alice Clayton', aka 'Lord and Lady Greystoke'.
"Adopted as an infant by the she-ape 'Kala' after his parents die (his mother dies of natural causes on Tarzan's first birthday, and his father is killed by the savage king ape 'Kerchak'), Clayton is named 'Tarzan' ('White Skin' in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage.
"After many adventures and killing Kerchak, Tarzan establishes himself as 'king of the apes'.
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"Subsequently, a group of people are marooned on the coast, including 'Jane Porter', the first white woman Tarzan has ever seen.
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"Tarzan spies on the newcomers, aids them, and saves Jane from the perils of the jungle..."
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