Brian Damage
11-02-2008, 11:33 AM
According to CHUD, FOX have been quietly developing a remake of "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" for the past twelve months or so.
Now this isn't a sequel to the Tim Burton film -in fact chronologically, it'd be a prequel to the previous film - and in fact it probably won't share many similiarties at all with it, well, besides the fact the stars are monkeys.
For those that don't recall, "Conquest" told the story of 'Caesar' (Roddy McDowall), the first ape to talk.
In a futuristic society where ape slavery has taken over the world, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost 20 years in hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity
There's some differences between this new version and the old script - for a start, "Conquest" was set in a future America, a fascist society, where as this new version is set today - and as a consequence its been renamed to "Genesis : Apes".
http://chud.com/articles/articles/16881/1/IS-PLANET-OF-THE-APES-GETTING-REBOOTED-AGAIN/Page1.html
Now this isn't a sequel to the Tim Burton film -in fact chronologically, it'd be a prequel to the previous film - and in fact it probably won't share many similiarties at all with it, well, besides the fact the stars are monkeys.
For those that don't recall, "Conquest" told the story of 'Caesar' (Roddy McDowall), the first ape to talk.
In a futuristic society where ape slavery has taken over the world, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost 20 years in hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity
There's some differences between this new version and the old script - for a start, "Conquest" was set in a future America, a fascist society, where as this new version is set today - and as a consequence its been renamed to "Genesis : Apes".
http://chud.com/articles/articles/16881/1/IS-PLANET-OF-THE-APES-GETTING-REBOOTED-AGAIN/Page1.html