The reigning silverback of the gorillas, Kerchak, fiercely voiced ... simmers at the core of the story. When Tarzan has built himself up and learned to fight with knife and spear, not tooth ...

Given the job of creating Kerchak, the silverback patriarch of the gorilla tribe that takes Tarzan in, Bruce Smith discovered there is precious little film of gorillas in their natural habitats.

In the final fight scene between him and Tarzan, after he kills Kerchak, Clayton becomes entangled in the vines, slashing at them wildly with his machete in a bid to free himself, vines slowly ...

The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane adjusting to life ...