Guillermo del Toro had originally been attached to direct when the project was announced at Warner Brothers two years ago, but as he is currently and for the foreseeable future (more on that later) committed to more Hobbit-y pursuits, Stephen Sommers, the helmer behind The Mummy and The Jungle Book will step in to take his place. Sommers, who is working with screenwriter Stu Beattie, says that he does not plan to work from the original 1914 book, nor any of the other preceding films, but that they will come at it with an entirely new approach that is, of course, being kept tightly under wraps. The pair recently finished working together on next summer's G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, a movie my boyfriend -- much like me with my copious Swiss Family Robinson Tree House laments -- won't shut up about. There is no casting news, or a whiff on when it might be released, but if Tarzan knows what's good for him, this new version won't throw any coconut bombs or catch a tiger in a pit, nor otherwise further sully what is already and will always be the greatest jungle movie, ever. *Ahem.*