ryanbrennan wrote:
delgadosaur wrote:
I acknowledge the longevity, but the Tarzans ebbed and flowed, while the Bond string is continuous.
Two interruptions of 6 & 4 years.  That's not counting the 8 years between the false start of CASINO ROYALE and DR. NO.

Thank you, yes, interruptions. The Bond films stayed with UA/MGM/Sony/The Broccolis for all these years.

Studios give up the rights when they properties do not make money anymore, and the Tarzan films bounced around from studio to studio, some successful other not.

That's the core of this discussion, the steady stream of Bond films into modernity, which is something the Tarzan films could not maintain.

Try making a Bond movie and Sony would fight tooth and nail.

Seems like the Tarzan film rights open up every few years or so.