12-08-2008, 05:57 PM
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->#1 20TH CENTURY FOX REBOOTING PLANET OF THE APES AGAIN WITH CAESAR
The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->