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15 May 2012  |  Written by James White  |  Source: The Hollywood Reporter


Scott Z Burns Writing Apes Sequel

Given that Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes overcame reboot scepticism to end up as one of last year’s big blockbuster delights, a sequel was all but guaranteed. So it came to pass; with 20th Century Fox locking down performance capture guru / ape actor extraordinaire Andy Serkis into a new deal and getting other elements set up. The embryonic film is now going through a typical sequel convulsion, with Contagion writer Scott Z Burns hired to craft the latest draft of the script.

While few details are known about the story just yet, we do know that it will continue the plot kicked off at the end of Rise, with the apes now further established on their way to becoming the new rulers of Earth. How far along remains to be seen.

Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa have worked on the first draft, and the job will now be handed to Burns, which makes sense given his  Contagion experience, since the movie also introduced another crucial element in the simian uprising: a virulent plague that began spreading through humanity and slowly wiping us out. But we’d predict Silver and Jaffa will still be involved in some way, especially as they were replaced several times during the torturous process of getting the first movie to the screen, and yet ended up in charge of the shooting draft.

Very little else is locked in at this point beyond Serkis, but director Rupert Wyatt is also likely to return whenever the movie is ready to shoot.


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Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
I want to SEE the ape revolution in all its detail. It should basically be a zombie movie but with apes. I'd also like to see how they organised themselves into apes as soldiers, chimps as scientists and orang-utans as political leaders. A chance for an intriguing movie there. So DO IT, Fox! More

Posted by BenTramer at 22:18 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: BenTramer Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes in the 70s ended the same way as Rise did with the apes poised to take over the world but the film that followed (Battle For The Planet Of The Apes) had a tiny budget and never showed how the apes took control. ing the sequel to Rise will spare no expense to show us this unique world taking shape.ote] That's what I was hoping for in Rise. The next one could possibly skip that though. It might just have been a gradual process of humans d More

Posted by Sotto Voce at 18:47 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: shool L: Spaldron L: horribleives like all the human characters apart fromrg's. h? Freudian slip ore of a Rossian slip (named after Paul Ross). More

Posted by Woger at 17:33 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: shool L: Spaldron L: horribleives like all the human characters apart fromrg's. h? Freudian slip oops, I meant Franco. No idea why I wrote that - I haven't even seen the Tim Burton one. Weird. It must just be 'cause they're both dashingly handsome. Aye, I'll go with that More

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RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: shool L: Spaldron L: horribleives like all the human characters apart fromrg's. h? Freudian slip EDIT: Forgot no images in here. [:(] More

Posted by Spaldron at 14:40 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: horribleives L: UTB Can Frida Pinto get viciously ape murdered in the first few minutes please? Face ripping, decapitation, limbs torn off, the lot. 'd much rather she took her bra off myself. t would come off pretty easy with no arms. More

Posted by UTB at 14:39 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: Spaldron L: horribleives like all the human characters apart fromrg's. h? sp; Freudian slip More

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RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: horribleives like all the human characters apart fromrg's. h? More

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RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: horribleives Aye she was just a but under-written, like all the human characters apart from g'y. sp; More

Posted by shool at 14:35 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

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RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
Hope Rupert Wyatt comes back to direct, they need to keep the continuity. Also I'd like to see Brian Cox return, his character was underused and he clearly now has a score to settle with Caesar. More

Posted by Spaldron at 14:33 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
Aye she was just a but under-written, like all the human characters apart from Whalberg's really. More

Posted by horribleives at 11:58 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
I thought Pinto was fine in the film. The problem was her character wasn't given much to do. More

Posted by MonsterCat at 11:41 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
L: UTB Can Frida Pinto get viciously ape murdered in the first few minutes please? Face ripping, decapitation, limbs torn off, the lot. 'd much rather she took her bra off myself. More

Posted by horribleives at 11:31 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Would you still complain.....
L: Teddy Bear If Tobey Maguire had playedthe role of Will? sm=huh.gif] More

Posted by MonsterCat at 11:14 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

RE: Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
Can Frida Pinto get viciously ape murdered in the first few minutes please? Face ripping, decapitation, limbs torn off, the lot. More

Posted by UTB at 10:52 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

Dominion Of The Planet Of The Apes
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes in the 70s ended the same way as Rise did with the apes poised to take over the world but the film that followed (Battle For The Planet Of The Apes) had a tiny budget and never showed how the apes took control. I'm hoping the sequel to Rise will spare no expense to show us this unique world taking shape. More

Posted by BenTramer at 09:46 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

Would you still complain.....
If Tobey Maguire had playedthe role of Will? More

Posted by Teddy Bear at 08:30 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

Would you still complain.....
If Tobey Maguire had playedthe role of Will? More

Posted by Teddy Bear at 08:07 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

Lost in space
Let's not forget that other juicy plot point of astronauts getting lost in space. Wonder which sequel they'll show up in ... and who the leads will be? More

Posted by Velorapture at 02:06 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post

Dark Horse?
I think that although you may sigh at the vast amounts of overly done sequels, this one may actually have potential to make a great movie. I think that if they almost went down an apocolyptic route, a fight for man's survival it could be pretty intense and gripping. More

Posted by ryanharrison1990 at 01:47 on 16 May 2012 | Report This Post


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