Jessica Chastain, the talented and attractive 35-year-old actress who was nominated for Academy Awards last month for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty," is the first choice for a role as Jane in a Tarzan remake. On March 7, 2013, Spinoff Online has reported, Jessica Chastain to Play Jane in David Yates’ Tarzan? David Yates signed on to direct Tarzan in November, and Jessica Chastain has been chosen as the first choice to play Jane, Tarzan’s love interest, in this exciting new movie.
According to earlier reports, this Tarzan theme will center on John Clayton III, the famous “ape man” Tarzan, many years after he’s re-assimilated into English society. He is asked by Queen Victoria to investigate “the goings-on in the Congo,” and so he teams up with a former mercenary named George Washington Williams to save the country from a warlord who controls a massive diamond mine there. Stellan Skarsgard is rumored to be “in the running” for Tarzan, while Samuel L. Jackson remains “rumored to play an ex-mercenary who helps Tarzan save the Congo from a vicious warlord.” The movie is expected to begin shooting over the summer, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Contactmusic.com has also covered this story, Jessica Chastain - Jessica Chastain to play Jane of the jungle? It has been confirmed that Jessica Chastain is being lined up to play jungle beauty Jane in David Yates' remake of 'Tarzan'. If she takes the role of Jane, Jessica will be have to flash plenty of flesh and most likely appear in an animal skin bikini. Jessica has said, "When someone tells me I'm a sex symbol I'm like, 'What?' But I'll take what I can get. That'll teach all those boys back in junior high school. In fact, I hope my very first boyfriend, the guy I dated for one month and who broke up with me at the Valentine's Day dance - I hope that boy sees this.'' That guy must feel horrible seeing what he passed up on after all of these years.
