Catching Up With... Jonathan Coulton
Wilco - "Wilco (the song)"
Cory Chisel - "Born Again"
If You're Happy and You Know It: The 13 Best Songs with Handclaps
Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons- "Born Again"
Right around the time Mark Wahlberg started to make out with an ape-suited Helena Bonham Carter in Tim Burton’s remake of Planet of the Apes (pictured above), it was clear 20th Century Fox had failed to reignite the old franchise. The movie posted decent numbers, but even with a gotcha twist ending that suggested the possibility of another movie, it felt distinctly like a one-time gig.
Fox, naturally, has other ideas. CHUD has propped up a rumor that a
prequel is in development with the studio, an apparent remake
of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes about intelligent apes trying to
overthrow the human world. They have an extended description of the script, called Apes: Genesis,
which they say has bounced around the Fox offices for the past year.
Since the original Planet of the Apes opened in 1968, there have been theatrical sequels as well as TV movies and a series, and the extended attempt to remake the sci-fi touchstone that eventually became the Burton film languished in pre-production for many, many years before it finally got off the ground. Given how it turned out that time, expect the same for this movie, if it happens at all.
Related links:
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes on IMDb
Planet of the Apes: The Legacy Addition DVD site
Week in Review: A sampling of Planet of the Apes remake headlines
Got a news tip for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.
Since the original Planet of the Apes opened in 1968, there have been theatrical sequels as well as TV movies and a series, and the extended attempt to remake the sci-fi touchstone that eventually became the Burton film languished in pre-production for many, many years before it finally got off the ground. Given how it turned out that time, expect the same for this movie, if it happens at all.
Related links:
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes on IMDb
Planet of the Apes: The Legacy Addition DVD site
Week in Review: A sampling of Planet of the Apes remake headlines
Got a news tip for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.
Email
Enough with the reboots already. Enough.
Helena Bonham Carter was hot in the first one though.
The best of the original movies I think was "Beneath the Planet of the Apes". Love the scene where the faithful are pulling off their skin masks while a huge intercontinental ballistic missile revs up behind them. Even a director like Burton, who never met a good movie he didn't need to re-imagine, could screw up a scene like that.
NOT THAT I WANT BURTON TO DIRECT ANOTHER ONE!!
OK, I'm sorry. In my haste to paste my comments regarding this article I inadvertently wrote,
"Even a director like Burton, who never met a good movie he didn't need to re-imagine, could screw up a scene like that."
What I meant to write was,
"Even a director like Burton, who never met a good movie he didn't need to re-imagine, COULDN"T screw up a scene like that."
I actually may be one of the few people in the universe who didn't hate Burton's Planet of the Apes. It was incredibly flawed but no one can deny the fact that he has a visual style like no other director working.