Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

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Tim Burton killed Planet of the Apes. His film, while technically profitable, left moviegoers with such a bad taste in their mouths that Fox never bothered revisiting it in a sequel. The franchise, which had seemed poised for rebirth, lay dead for years.
But right now, in the halls of Fox, there is another new version of Planet of the Apes that has been kicking around for the last year. It's not a sequel to the Burton film, and it's not another remake of the original. To the general audience it's a prequel to Planet of the Apes, but for the initiated it's something totally different.
It's a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
Yup. It's the story of Caesar, the ape who said no, the first ape with speech who started the events that led to a world where monkeys were on top and humans were dumb beasts.
Things are different in this script, written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, which is called Genesis: Apes. Fans will know that Caesar in Conquest is the result of a massive temporal paradox - his parents escaped to 1973 from a far future Earth. Further, Conquest takes place in a dystopian 'future' - 1991 - while Genesis: Apes is set in the modern day.
In this version Caesar is the result of a genetic scientist fooling around with the nature of things. When the baby monkey exhibits intelligence and the ability to talk, he takes the cuddly thing home to his wife, who is unable to bear children. Things go surprisingly well for a number of years until Caesar grows up and sees mommy getting attacked. The dutiful son steps in and accidentally kills the attacker.
Here's where it takes off. In a scene paralleling Charlton Heston in the cage in the original Planet of the Apes, Caesar ends up in custody at an Ape Conservatory where he and the other apes are abused mercilessly. Caesar finds himself a primate without a world - he's as smart as humans but will never be one of them (and is in fact tortured by them) and he's initially rejected by his monkey brethren.
You're on Caesar's side, understanding where this poor outcast is coming from. But then the script gets really ballsy and, just like in Conquest, Caesar begins a campaign to unite the apes and overthrow human society. And his plan isn't a Martin Luther King Jr series of marches, speeches and sit ins - Caesar and his apes take to the streets violently.
Again, it's like Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which brilliantly modeled its ape riot scenes on the Watts Riots that had happened just a few years before. But Conquest was set in a future where America was ruled by a fascist society. Genesis: Apes is set today, in this world. The regime that Caesar overthew in Conquest was made up of bad guys. The Caesar of Genesis: Apes is coming after you.
Maybe this is why the script has been languishing all this time. You just can't have your hero working to tear down our modern society. It's too radical! Plus, Fox remains notoriously unfriendly to good genre ideas.

Quelle: chud.com

[SFI]

Tim Rothman von Fox:

We are very close at Fox on a new Apes script- this one a kind of prequel story before the first story, with a return to the social thematics that mark the first one, but with an entirely contemporary setting - Earth 2009.

Quelle: chud.com

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Rupert Wyatt wird Regie führen

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US Start: 24.06.2011

erstmals werden wohl CGI Affen verwendet

[freeman]

erstmals werden wohl CGI Affen verwendet

Das wird hundertpro in die Hosen gehen. Ausser sie stilisieren sie von vornherein auf unecht ...

In diesem Sinne:
freeman

[kami]

Bin gespannt!

[Dr Dolph]

Neeein! Keine CGI-Affen. Bitte nicht...

[Seemi]

Die sollten das lieber so machen wie in Where the wild things are. Kostüme und dann die Gesichter animieren. Oder die finden eine Firma, die eine absolut überzeugende Fur-Engine entwickelt.

[SFI]

Actor James Franco, best known for playing Harry Osborn and his Goblin alter-ego in the "Spider-Man" movies, has become the first human cast in Rupert (The Escapist) Wyatt's Rise of the Apes, which is scheduled to start filming on July 5 for its planned June 24, 2011 release date.
Franco won't be donning any make-up or fur as he will in fact be playing a human, essentially a scientist who is pivotal in the war between the humans and the apes. We can probably expect a lot more casting announced in the next few weeks leading to the start of filming.

Quelle: comingsoon.net

[SFI]

Don Cheadle und Freida Pinto sind mit dabei

[SFI]

John Lithgow macht auch mit!

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Brian Cox macht den Bad Guy

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US Start auf 23.11.11 verschoben!

[StS]

[SFI]

sehr aussagekräftig!

[freeman]

Geiles Affen Make Up!

In diesem Sinne:
freeman

[SFI]

neuer Titel!

[kami]

neuer Titel!

Erhebt sich denn dieses Mal der Planet?

[C4rter]

Wie gut, genau das habe ich mir auch gedacht.

[StS]

Ein 4 Sekunden langer Clip, der einen Blick auf einen CGI-Affen wirft...
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=76327

[Seemi]

Der Affe is zumindest schonmal gut gemacht, aber es meckert eh wieder irgendwer über die Effekte

[freeman]

Jo, ich zähl schonmal runter ...

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In diesem Sinne:
freeman

[StS]

1. Trailer:
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/43820/ ... lanet-apes

[Wallnuss]

es meckert eh wieder irgendwer über die Effekte

Cinefreak,du wurdest gerufen

[SFI]

Naja schaut mir eher nach einem C-Movie King Kong aus.

[Seemi]

Der Trailer erweckt bei mir den Eindruck, als ob Splice auf Jackson's King Kong trifft.

Da schau ich mir lieber, endlich mal wieder, Altered States an.