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The GI Joe helmer will co-write the script for the film alongside Stuart Beattie, reports Variety.
Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub have been attempting to get an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 book Tarzan Of The Apes off the ground for the last five years.
Guillermo del Toro expressed an interest in directing the project in 2006.
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