History Trivia / Tarzan

** Michael T. Weiss replaced Tony Goldwyn as the voice of Tarzan in the TV series. Creator/AlexDLinz is his younger voice for the prequel.

* DeletedScene: Animator Ken Duncan has shared some unused animation scenes cut from the film, including Jane's original intro (when coming out of the bamboo, her dress is flipped to make her look pregnant) and Jane politely asking Tarzan to let her go in the middle of the baboon chase sequence.

** Creator/JeffreyTambor was considered for Tantor.

* EndOfAnEra: Generally considered to be the last film of the Disney Renaissance. Production on ''Kingdom Of The Sun'' was getting worse by the day while this film was wrapping up, convincing the higher ups that it was finally time to put the blockbuster musical formula to rest, making this the final one[[note]]Although the characters do not ''sing'' the actual songs in this one, with a single, brief exception. The others songs appear in the movie non-diagetically and sung by Phil Collins[[/note]]. ''Sun'' eventually became the broad comedy ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', the studio's first non-musical since ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'', which kicked off a string of more "experimental" films at the beginning of the New Millennium (''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'' technically came first, but that had been in production for a decade). ''Tarzan'' was also Disney's last hand-drawn film to be guaranteed box office gold, as these newer films did poorly with critics and audiences, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' being more of a SleeperHit, thanks to the sudden swerve an heavy competition with CGI features. It all ended up being part of the perfect storm which killed American hand-drawn animated features.

** Creator/BrendanFraser auditioned for Tarzan. He also starred in the parody ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle''.
** Creator/LauraLinney auditioned for Jane Porter.
** Creator/HarrisonFord was considered for Kerchak.
** Creator/IanMcKellen and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Clayton.

** Animator Ken Duncan has shared some unused animation scenes cut from the film, including Jane's original intro (when coming out of the bamboo, her dress is flipped to make her look pregnant) and Jane politely asking Tarzan to let her go in the middle of the baboon chase sequence.

* Music/AlanSilvestri was originally slated to compose for the film, before being replaced by Mark Mancina.

** On a production level, the original plan was to just have Tony Goldwyn do the classic Tarzan yodel but he was unable to provide a satisfactory version of it. When the topic came up during a conversation between the producers and Brian Blessed after production had wrapped up, Brian told them he could do the yoddle as he used to do it as a child. When the producers didn't believe him, he did the yodel on the spot. The producers were so impressed they asked canceled his ride to the airport and had him sign a ''separate contract'' for the recording of the yoddle.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: The Japanese dub reunited some members of the voice cast of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Creator/KenjiUtsumi (Raoh) voices Kerchak, Creator/ToshikoFujita (Mamiya) voices Kala, Creator/BanjoGinga (Souther) voices Clayton and Creator/TesshoGenda (Shokei, Dante and also Raoh in ''VideoGame/JStarsVictoryVS'', plus some animated shorts) voice Tantor.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, basically [[Manga/FistOFTheNorthStar Raoh is married with Mamiya, rather than Yuria instead, while Souther wants to kill both of them]].

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Disney's Tarzan'' on UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 came with a Tarzan figurine.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://tarzan.wikia.com/wiki/Tarzan_Wiki The Tarzan Wiki]].

* EndOfAnEra: Generally considered to be the last film of the Disney Renaissance. Production on ''Kingdom Of The Sun'' was getting worse by the day while this film was wrapping up, convincing the higher ups that it was finally time to put the blockbuster musical formula to rest, making this the final one. ''Sun'' eventually became the broad comedy ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', the studio's first non-musical since ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'', which kicked off a string of more "experimental" films at the beginning of the New Millennium (''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'' technically came first, but that had been in production for a decade). ''Tarzan'' was also Disney's last hand-drawn film to be guaranteed box office gold, as these newer films did poorly with critics and audiences, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' being more of a SleeperHit, thanks to the sudden swerve an heavy competition with CGI features. It all ended up being part of the perfect storm which killed American hand-drawn animated features.

* TalentDouble: While Tony Goldwyn provided the title character's speaking voice, Creator/BrianBlessed provided his iconic yodel.

** The scene where Jane was ranting about what happened to her, her father and Clayton, after being rescued from the baboons? That whole thing was improvised by her voice actor, Minnie Driver.

** Michael T. Weiss replaced Tony Goldwyn as the voice of Tarzan in the TV series. [[Film/HomeAlone Alex D Linz]] is his younger voice for the prequel.

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* This is considered to be the final film of the Disney Renaissance (the next film in line was the long-awaited sequel to ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', which had been announced back in 1991, and this film is considered the beginning of the Millennium Age of Animation).

* SameLanguageDub: A weird case. According to '''Creator/BrianBlessed''', although Tony Goldwyn provided the voice for Tarzan in the theatrical animated Tarzan film, Brian provided Tarzan's iconic yodel.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Disney's Tarzan'' on {{Nintendo 64}} came with a Tarzan figurine.

** Susanne Blakeslee replaced Glenn Close as the voice of Kala in most of her later appearances.

** Jeff Bennett replaced Nigel Hawthorne as the voice of Professor Porter in the TV series.

** Jim Cummings replaced Wayne Knight as the voice of Tantor in most of his later appearances.

* This is considered to be the final film of the Disney Renaissance (the next film in line was the long-awaited sequel to ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', which had been announced back in 1991, and this film is considered the beginning of the Millennium Age of Animation), and ''Tarzan'' is the only one of the Renaissance films to not be packaged in a Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo animated film specialty line.

* This is considered to be the final film of the Disney Renaissance (the next film in line was the long-awaited sequel to ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', which had been announced back in 1991, and this film is considered the beginning of the Millennium Age of Animation), and ''Tarzan'' is the only one of the Renaissance films to not be packaged in an animated film specialty line for [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo home media]] (the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyMasterpieceCollection, which replaced the [[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyClassics Walt Disney "Black Diamond" Classics]] brand in 1994, was discontinued around ''Tarzan's'' theatrical release with ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', and while a new brand, the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyGoldClassicCollection brand, was created for 2000, ''Tarzan'' wasn't packaged in it, plus the Gold Classic Collection died a quick death, only lasting 14 months compared to the years of its two predecessors. The next two lines, the [[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyPlatinumEditions Platinum]]/[[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyDiamondEditions Diamond Editions]], don't include ''Tarzan'' since those lines concern the "Untouchables" in the Disney Vault, which ''Tarzan'' is not a part of).