DISQUS

Film School Rejects: New Planet of the Apes Project Comes Into Focus

  • CaptainReg0981 · 11 months ago
    Ummm...I think this one should be put to rest. Unless Peter Jackson or JJ Abrams is directing this one I'm not excited on this news.
  • David G · 11 months ago
    I lost interest after the second installment. Esp with that remake bomb. But knowing Fox, anything to rake in some change.
  • Nish · 11 months ago
    Whenever they try to ground something in harde science, it doesn't work so well as real science is unfortunatley quite boring. I would though like to see it and its nice that its not a remake.
  • Jenny Talls · 11 months ago
    Face it. Actors in monkey suits will never make a comeback. I don't know what made the first film so popular, but I don't think today's audiences will ever go for an anthropomorphic political thriller, except for maybe the furries, but who cares what they think?
  • HempKnight757 · 11 months ago
    I would have to disagree with CaptinReg. Why get directors who already like to do a shit load of remakes to do another? I'll pass no matter who is directing.
  • Theresa Shafer · 11 months ago
    Very interested in how the first ape got more intelligent and was able to pass on this trait and more to future generations. Each generation getting more and more like Humans. While humans devolved.
  • Morbious Fod · 11 months ago
    Being the fan of the originals that I am, and knowing how the sequels were in reality more reactionary to the unexpected continuation of the franchise, I think a new completely thought out version of the apes story spread out over a period of movies might actually be an interesting concept. So long as the budget isn't cut with every sequel, has an overarching plot with a purpose, and a good director this could be very interesting indeed. All of these things led to the mish mash of plots barely strung together in the original series, due to their having to come up with something new when they killed the main characters off at the end of the first two films.

    If done right the humans in ape costumes can be pulled off without it looking goofy. If they did in in the late 60's with that technology imagine what can be done today. After all they can't possibly screw it up any worse than Burton did with the remake.
  • Hasslein Books · 11 months ago
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