Sony Pictures has picked up the movie rights to “Tarzan” from Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., according to a person with knowledge of the project.

The studio seeks to totally reinvent IP for a modern audience.

No producer, writer or director was so far attached to the property on Friday.

According to an insider with knowledge of the property, “Tarzan” has been in the public domain since January 2020.

Written and created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912, “Tarzan” centers on the son of a British lord, who was abandoned in the African jungle and raised by monkeys. Tarzan would grow up and discover civilization, only to cast it aside and return to the jungle as a heroic adventurer.

The book spawned numerous sequels, and the property continued to dominate popular culture for decades via movies, soap operas, radio shows, TV shows, and comic books. Disney made an animated film “Tarzan” in 1999 which became a hit and spawned a Broadway adaptation.

In 2016, Alexander Skarsgard took on the character in “The Legend of Tarzan” which was released by Warner Brothers, but the film didn’t take off or launch a franchise.

The Hollywood Reporter reported the news for the first time.