Accoring to the Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Sommers is in negotiations with Warner Bros. to bring a new version of the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs creation “Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” to the big screen.

The project was first announced two years ago with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct. But Sommers will get his shot now that Del Toro is committed to a four-year stint choreographing dwarves in New Zealand for the “Hobbit” movies.

Sommers and the project’s screenwriter, Stu Beattie (”Collateral”), are developing an entirely new approach, though more details beyond that are being kept under wraps tighter than Tarzan’s loincloth.

I wonder if Stephen Sommers will give Brendan Fraser the lead as Tarzan.