Yes, Tanya Roberts should have been excellent casting, but the brane ded script, and insane location shooting in dried-up, thorny, depressing East Africa, moving everything into the current era, were all monumental faults that doomed the movie.
It may have been made worse only by requiring Ms. Roberts to
"act." Any fool could have seen that all she had to do was be physical and be photographed by a heterosexual male who could appreciate her true… assets as a screen presence.
She was fine as far as they needed her to go in "From A View To A Kill," though that, too, was a fairly lame entry in the Bond canon.
Robert's "Sheena" was a box office disaster that pretty well ended the careers of both the leading lady AND her leading man, Ted Wass (who remembers him now?).
SO if the still brane ded gits who reach back for old titles to remake, want to avoid repeating history, they would be well advised to try to copy the success of the latest "Tarzan" in period, locale, and frankly (though she's probably TOO good to take the part) try to cast Margot Robbie in the leopard skin.
And, "Yes," I threw away good ticket money when the previous "Sheena" (which is remembered now as "Sheeeesh!") came out and am still gobsmacked at how bad the whole thing was.
Except perhaps for Ms. Roberts riding the faux Zebra bare backed.
The Zebra, not Ms. Roberts. There was nothing "faux" about her….
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