Greystoke

Greystoke is a 2013 ten part miniseries by HBO and based on the novels Tarzan of the Apes and The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The miniseries itself episode is 1 hour long and is the most faithful adaption of the novel so far, Upon airing it received critical acclaim for its faithfulness to the novels and it also won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Drama Series.

Plot
In 1889 Lord John Greystoke and his wife Lady Alice Greystoke are abandoned on the west coast of the Belgium Congo following a mutiny and soon after Alice gives birth but soon afterwards dies from a fever. At the same time a female Gorilla named Kala loses her baby and her tribe led by the bloodthirsty Tublat come to the tree house where the Greystokes live and Tublat kills Lord John whilst he is grieving over his dead wife and Kala adopts the baby boy.

22 years later in 1910 the grown up boy named Tarzan meets a stranded expedition consisting of Jane Porter, her father Archimedes Q. Porter, her ward Esmeralda and William Cecil Clayton who unbeknownst to them Tarzan's cousin. One day they are attacked by a pride of Lions and Jane is separated from them but is rescued by Tarzan and soon by both fall in love. But eventually Jane returns to America and Tarzan follows her back.

However after learning that she is engaged he returns heart broken to the jungle but ends up being involved in a search for the lost city of Opar. Jane only realizing her love for Tarzan goes after him and in the end she chooses to remain in the Jungle with Tarzan.

Cast and Characters
Nicholas Hoult as Tarzan: The son of Lord John and Lady Alice Greystoke who were both stranded in the West African jungle in 1889, after their deaths he was adopted by the female Gorilla Kala and when he grew up he fell in love with the beautiful young American Jane Porter.

Eleanor Tomlinson as Jane Porter: A beautiful young woman Baltimore Maryland who whilst traveling with her father Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter to find a lost treasure was marooned in the jungles of the Belgium Congo, she bcomes Tarzan's love interest and in the end marries him.

Frankie Muniz as William Cecil Claython: The cousin of Tarzan who came to Africa to look for his aunt and uncle who disappeared over 22 years ago but eventually discovered that hey had died, he is engaged to Jane Porter but when he realizes that she and Tarzan love each other he breaks it off so that they can be together, he dies after being shot by Nikolas Rokoff.

Ian McShane as Prof Archimedes Q. Porter: Jane's father who is also a professor at the Baltimore University who leads an expedition to find a lost treasure off the coast of West Africa so that Jane would not have to marry the abusive mobster Canler, he accompanies Jane back to Africa to look for Tarzan after she realizes her love for him.

Alan Rickman as Nikolas Rokoff: A ruthless treasure hunter from Russia and the main antagonist of the miniseries, he is looking for the supposed lost city of Opar and succeeds in finding it and removes Queen La from her thrown, in the end La sacrifices herself to save Tarzan and Jane by throwing Rokoff and herself into a Crocodile infested river where Rokoff is devoured screaming alive.

Christopher Eccleston as Paul d'Arnot: A French Naval officer who came to look for Archimedes expedition but ended up being captures by a tribe of cannibals but is rescued by Tarzan, he then teaches Tarzan how to speak French and he also becomes one of his best friends.

Chris Rock as Busuli: A member of the Waziri Tribe in West Africa and one of its best and most skilled warriors, he befriends Tarzan upon his return to Africa and helps him to free Jane from Opar.

Wanda Sykes as Esmeralda: Jane's ward and best friend from America.