He made a film called The Escapist I was in, and I think he’s one of the most visually interesting directors around.” “He is sort of a prodigy of mine, and probably one of the best young directors around. “Rupert is somebody who I had worked with before,” he told Movieweb. Happily for Wyatt, one of his cast was already fighting his corner, with Brian Cox singing his praises to anyone who’d listen. I feel like this film has taught me that.” You have to learn that skill of taking something, but making it your own. My background as a filmmaker was always to generate my own work and write my own scripts, so this has been very different for me. “I came onto this film quite late in the day,” he said, “with a script that was already pretty evolved. On top of keeping the spending under control, Wyatt also had to adjust to becoming something of a hired gun. “There are certain responsibilities and requirements that you have to fulfill when you’re making a studio film and I still had a huge responsibility to my budget.” “It wasn’t that different ,” said Wyatt in an interview with Film School Rejects. However, if Wyatt had expected to be given the keys to the candy store, he was mistaken. Best known for his work on understated prison-break drama The Escapist, Wyatt had never presided over a film of this magnitude before but seemed to fit the more cerebral theme the studio was looking for. It was at this point that Fox sprung their first genuine surprise, with the appointment of little known British director Rupert Wyatt. Now all they needed was a director who could bring it to life… Prev of 10 Next Prev of 10 Next The result was the fabled “hard sci-fi” that Fox has apparently been looking for. It’s a synopsis that sums the film up fairly neatly, but how did Fox manage to whip up such a coherent plot from a script they had supposedly had problems with? Well, Jamie Moss, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver must share the credit around between them as all three screenwriters were brought in at various points to lick Scott Frank’s original script into shape. “Set in present day San Francisco, the film is a reality-based cautionary tale, a science-fiction /science-fact blend, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.” “ Rise Of The Apes is an origin story in the truest sense of the term,” began the blurb. The project was given the working title Rise Of The Apes, and a loose plot outline was released by Fox in an official statement. That’s right, they even went as far as to name a release date, with 24 June 2011 marked as the day the apes would storm the multiplex. Not to be discouraged, Fox pressed ahead with its grand plan and in May 2010, the studio announced that a new Planet Of The Apes prequel would arrive in just over a year’s time.
However, just when it seemed that progress was being made, Frank left the project along with producer Scott Rudin over a dispute with the studio concerning the film’s direction.
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Using the working title Caesar, Frank was determined to pen a script that would steer clear of the hammier elements of the Apes series in order to create a more serious-minded sci-fi. the apes were on the rise again! Prev of 10 Next Prev of 10 Next In a shockingly original move it was judged that a prequel would be the best way to proceed, with Minority Report scribe Scott Frank commissioned to pen a script. Meanwhile, Wahlberg was still smarting at having passed up on Ocean’s Eleven to star in the original and had no intention of tripping himself up for a second time.īut despite all this negativity Fox weren’t about to give up on one of their most reliable cash cows, deciding that all that was needed was a new approach. However, Burton was none to keen to repeat the experience, telling The Guardian he’d, “rather jump out of a window” then direct a sequel. Taking aside the fact that it didn’t make much sense, there was at least scope here for Wahlberg to go round 2 with those damned dirty apes.
Tim Burton’s reimagining of the original film had received a critical mauling and it was clear that if Fox wanted to persist with the franchise, they would need to take things in a radically different direction.īurton’s film had ended with the door left ajar for a potential sequel, with Mark Wahlberg’s astronaut returning to Earth only to be confronted by a statue of General Thade in place of Abe Lincoln. Back in 2001 the Planet Of The Apes franchise looked dead in the water.
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