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Writer/Director Scott Frank is not remaking Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
He is taking the Planet of the Apes concept in an exciting new direction.

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From CHUD:

The original film and Escape rank among my favorite movies of all time. Absolutely wonderful. The others are at least watchable, my favorite of the remainder being Conquest. I do recall seeing it on the Fox Movie Channel sometime this past summer (?) with the original, less compassionate ending intact. That really surprised me, but it was definitely better than what ended up being originally released. Does anyone know if that ending was preserved on a DVD release?

From Vulture:


[quote="Claude Brodesser-Akner"]
Vulture has learned that that saddened cinephile simiaphiles everywhere last week, Twentieth Century Fox has not given up on rebooting Planet of the Apes. In fact, insiders familiar with the situation insist the studio is now more determined than ever to make the film, albeit with different DNA: The Apes have been handed to none other than Peter Chernin, who last summer exited his post as top banana of News Corporation to become a producer at Fox.

The Internet rumors of the reboot's demise likely germinated when it was discovered that all-star writer Scott Frank had left the project, an origin story showing just how the apes became so smart. Frank was also supposed to direct the film for producer Scott Rudin, and because Frank had crafted the scripts for such Fox hits as Minority Report and Marley & Me, it’s easy to see how his departure might be misconstrued as the studio’s loss of interest in the project. But no: Production and agency insiders both confirm that Fox has hired writer Jamie Moss (Street Kings) to rework Frank's version, and the original writers, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (The Relic, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle), were recently brought back to polish the dialogue.

Frank’s Apes script, code-named Caesar, showed how genetic experiments on apes led to their evolutionary eclipse of humans. "Caesar" refers to the genetically altered leader of the simian rebellion, so dubbed because the ape was capable of grand strategic thinking on par with Julius Caesar (whose own surname means "hairy" in Latin). The "Caesar" code name also foreshadowed the script's plot: Just as the actual Julius Caesar set Rome on the path to the Roman Empire, the experimental ape's escape sets in motion his fellow hirsute hominids' (wait for it ... ) guerrilla war and subsequent dominance.*

The studio, however, wanted to pursue a different tack than Frank, and the writer-director was unwilling to change direction, according to a production source. As Rudin was only on board because Frank had asked him to serve as producer (the two had enjoyed working together on Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate twenty years ago), he left as well. But now that it's been handed to Chernin, the presumed-dead project is red hot again. For one thing, as part of his golden parachute from News Corporation, Chernin has several “putâ€

From Deadline New York:

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From CHUD:

From CHUD:

I have all the original movies on DVD. They're pretty good I think. Not all equally good, but generally good for their lower budget. They have a fairly dark tone to them as a whole.

From 24 Frames:

I know it's an old movie that I assume everyone's seen, but.....

[spoiler-ish]Now that I recall, this cut's ending omits Lisa's saying "No" and some speech by Caesar.

Now, it's a long, pregnant pause and then the Gorillas beat Breck to death, with no dialogue anywhere and a longer cue of Jerry Goldsmith's music from the original movie.[/spoiler-ish]


...figure I should at least attempt to not reveal it if anyone's at all concerned

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