If animated indoctrination is what you what your kids watching, Netflix will soon have just the thing.
Deadline Hollywood reported Netflix will expand its original programming to include multiple children’s shows, including an animated “Tarzan and Jane” in 2016. The eight episode Tarzan show will follow a teenage Tarzan, who “returns from the African jungle to a London boarding school where he is a fish-out-of-water and challenges conformity.”
This version will feature the classic duo as they “solve environmental injustice, crimes and mysteries.”
The original Tarzan stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs heavily embraced an “extreme form of ‘return to nature’” where Tarzan can survive within normal society, but prefers to “strip off the thin veneer of civilization.” It is against this backdrop that the latest “Tarzan and Jane” will most likely devolve into little more than environmental propaganda for children. At least, that’s what’s happened in the past.
In 2013, German filmmakers released their own modern-day retelling of Tarzan - complete with an evil corporation and blatant environmental messaging, according to Ecorazzi. In it, “Tarzan and Jane Porter face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies.” The “evil CEO” was attempting to explore the rainforest for new energy sources.
According to Deadline Hollywood, Netflix will add three other children’s shows including Puffin Rock, Kulpari: an Army of Frogs, and Luna Petunia.