‘The Legend of Tarzan’ trailer debuts Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie as modern-day Tarzan and Jane

“The Legend of Tarzan” trailer has landed packed with epic effects and action. The film is a new take on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ iconic jungle classic. The trailer features tribes, apes and exhilarating vine-swinging action with the rest of the creatures in the jungle.

“Harry Potter” director David Yates has helmed the film, and he considers the film as a proper way to reintroduce the wondrous landscapes of Africa on the big screens.

“They haven’t been there for an awfully long time,” he said.

The film deviates from the Burrough’s writings which focused on Tarzan being raised by simians and his rise as the Lord of the jungle. Instead, “The Legend of Tarzan” is set years after Tarzan left the African jungle to settle in London with his wife, Jane Porter. The conflict begins when he gets an invitation to visit Congo as a trade emissary, unaware that he is a pawn in a lethal plan formed out of greed and revenge.

In an interview with USA Today, Skarsgard said, "This is about a man who’s holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out."

To get in shape, Skarsgard underwent four months of strict training routine. He woke up at 4:30 a.m. every day for the role. “I basically didn’t see my family or my friends,” he said.

As for the role of Jane Porter, Yates envisions Robbie as an equal partner to Tarzan, “She’s a really strong, assertive, beautifully knowledgeable, very sexy modern woman who can more than look after herself,” he said. “In a way, it’s a story of two human beings and how they save each other.”

The film also stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Hurt and Russell Beale. Christopher Waltz will play the role of the villain called Captain Leon Rom.

"The Legend of Tarzan" opens on July 1, 2016.

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