May 29th, 1998
Tony Gonzalez, of the Kansas City Chiefs
maine skipper a charity event in order to film a small sequence in Planet of
the Apes, under production of Oliver Stone.The Kansas City Star's Jeffrey
Flannigan reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in the film.
____There are many problems with this
bizarre rumor. First of all, James Cameron has yet to complete the script for
the film. Also, Oliver Stone has categorically denied that he is currently
involved in the film as producer. As for Arnold, he's still considering his
next role. It may be possible that a test screening of some sort will be taking
place, but this rumor is highly in question.
March 31, 1998
____"Planet of the Apes is definitely
somewhere in my future," James Cameron stated to the Calgary Sun,
indicating his probable involvement aswriter of the slowly upcoming project. "I
have a better idea for a second True Lies than I do for a third Terminator, but
there are also other projects I have been nurturing for a while now."
March 25, 1998
Australia's Sun Herald reports that Peter
Doyle, effects supervisor of the upcoming film Matrix, revealed that while in
Los Angeles last week he met with Fox executives regarding doing FX work on the
James Cameron scripted Planet of the Apes remake. According to the article,
Fox's Sydney Studio will host the film when filming begins sometime next year. Although
unconfirmed, Arnold Schwarzenegger is still rumored for the lead role.
March 20, 1998
Cinescape Online reports that both Harrison
Ford and Kevin Costner are not involved in the James Cameron production of
Planet of the Apes. Costner has signed on to the feature Message in A Bottle
with Paul Newman. Harrison Ford's agent relayed a definitive "Not
true" to Cinescape regarding his involvement in the Apes flick.
March 19, 1998
At a recent luncheon featuring Oliver Stone
and James Cameron, the filmmakers denied that they would be collaborating on
Planet of the Apes.
February 18, 1998
A NewsWeek article confirms James Cameron's
involvement as the scriptwriter and producer of Fox's upcoming Planet of the
Apes remake. Cameron has additionally announced that he will not be directing
Planet of the Apes or any films for a while, as he wishes to take a break after
the grueling job he did on TITANIC.
January 26, 1998
Fox executives have informed James Cameron
that he can move ahead with the much-delayed remake of Planet of the Apes. Arnold
Schwarzenegger was the first choice of Cameron to star in the remake, who is
still shopping for his next film.
June 27th, 1997
I received an e-mail from someone who
supposedly knows James Cameron. He claims that Cameron, who will be producing
the film, has recently taken an interest in casting James Woods in the Zaius
role. This may be due to his current role as yet another villan (Hades) in the
film Hercules. This rumor seems to be nothing more than a crazed man's wish,
but it is nevertheless interesting.
- Sent in by Vince
June 17th, 1997
A source from the May-June issue of
Australian sci-fi magazine "Frontiers" reported that George Clooney
has been approached to possibly replace Arnold as the lead in the film. It has
also been brought to my attention that parts of the new movie will be shot at
Elstree Studios in north London. - Sent in by Wes Knight
May 18th, 1997
"Hamm appears to have retained only
the most basic premise from Terry Hayes awful version: Babies are being born
very old, and scientists must figure out why, or the human race faces
extinction.
____In Hamm's version, a spacecraft
splashes down in NYC's harbor. Inside are an orangutan which is shot dead, and
a pink blob which turns out to be the virus affecting the babies. A team of
pilots and scientists are assembled and they take the ship back to its
preprogrammed origin.
____The lead character is Alexander Troy,
cleraly the Taylor figure, but renamed to serve a weak plot point later in the
script. A female scientist accompanies him and falls in love with him (of
course). Dodge is the Jamaican astronaut who suffers the same fate as the
original's Landon, and Stewart still doesn't survive the trip, his (yes his)
corpse discovered in one of the cooler written segments of the script.
____Arriving at the polar cap of a distant
planet, the crew finds the speechless humans, get captured and separated until
it's just Troy and the female scientist. They find an ape civilization, where
the orangs, led by LORD Zaius, keep the others under their control through
religion and politics. Zaius is a swaggering, virile "alpha male of alpha
males", desribed as an "ape Hugh Hefner" and an "ape Bob
Packwood" at various points in the story.
____Ultimately, we learn that this planet
was once ruled by man, and that the apes have taken over after the humans fell
victim to the same virus that was sent to earth. By receiving radio signals
from earth, the orangs have swiped inventions, ideas, music and culture from
earth. The orangs take credit for all of it, and have sent the virus to earth
as a "vaccine". The female eventually finds a cure, they return to
the ship, have a final battle with the apes, escape in Troy's ship, where they
find Zaius sabotaging the air supply. Troy and Zaius battle, flying out an
airlock where Trot kills Zaius. He is rescued by the female, and they head back
to earth. Upon landing, they are horrified to discover that too much time has
passed, and earth is now a planet of apes.
____Infinitely superior to Terry Hayes
version, this one is still mired in utter silliness. A billboard is shown for
Macaque Culkin in HOME ALONE. The SIMIANS, a cartoon family, is a popular show.
The Statue of Liberty, at the fade out, has been recarved into the face of an
ape. At one point Troy escapes and is recaptured by a circus who use him in
their human act. The script has definite possibilities, but there is a fine
line between social satire and parody, which the script trips over again and
again. Hopefully they'll fix up the script or start over or scrap the
project." - sent in by Soylent Phil
January 28, 1997
Army Archerd reports that Schwarzenegger's
been involved with talks with Lightstorm Entertainment regarding the Apes film.
Check out our 12/15/96 scoop. Maybe someone in Toronto can ask Robert Rodriguez
if he is in discussions as well...
December 26, 1996
Screenwriter Sam Hamm, best known for his
Batman, Batman Returns and his unproduced treatment for a Watchmen movie has
written a new screenplay for this project. A scooper reports that he's seen a
Hamm draft kicking around, dated January 12, 1996.
December 15, 1996
Who owns the rights to Planet of the Apes? Twentieth
Century Fox. The rights to Predator? Fox. What studio has Arnold Schwarzenegger
experienced his most profitable working relationship with? Fox. And the
director who's helmed his most profitable movies? James Cameron.
____And which studio has Cameron's
development company, Lightstorm Entertainment, made a $500 million production
pact to produce and develop films with? Again, Fox. And Robert Rodriguez, the
director of From Dusk Till Dawn, has just turned in to Fox his proposal for
Predator 3, which is owned by Fox.
____Someone's heard something very
interesting. "What if I were to say... 'Twentieth Century Fox presents a
Lightstorm Entertainment Production of Robert Rodriguez film starring Arnold
Schwarzengger Planet of the Apes. Produced by James Cameron. Coming to a
theatre near you in Summer 1998." According to this source, it's coming
your way.
October 31, 1996
This scooper worked last year at Stan
Winston Studios, where he spent a large amount of his time on research and
development work for the Apes project. "Of course, this was when Chris
Columbus was still involved. After the R&D work was said to be complete all
of the stuff just got shelved and we never really heard about it again. The
makeup that was designed for the tests was really pretty impressive. Stan and
his son made a demo reel of improvisational stuff in the makeup under the
direction of CC. It was great."
July 31, 1996
The film may be in the process of being
re-titled to Return of the Apes.
May 11, 1996
A rumor reaches us that Oliver Stone may be
considering casting actor Ben Kingsley in the role of the scientist who travels
back in time, and Arnold Schwarzennegger as a primitive man in the distant
past.
January, 1996
Both Peter Jackson and Roland Emmerich
(Independance Day) pass on the directing assignment. Fox still maintains that
the film will be done.
November 1995
Chris Columbus finaly passes up on the
directing film. Once again it enters development hell.
February, 1995
Noyce jumps ship on Apes to direct The
Saint. Chris Columbus takes over the helm, re-writes script with Sam Hamm
(Batman), gaining the interest of James Cameron who nearly enters the party to
help produce.
January, 1995
Schwarzennegger approves Philip Noyce as
director of project. $100 million budget approved, rumors say. Fox still leary
about quality of the script.
March, 1994
Stone gets the interest of the Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Inside info indicates that Fox expected a "Flintstones"
type movie script, but instead got more of a "Terminator".
December, 1993
20th Century Fox gives the go-ahead on the
project. Don Murphy, Jane Hamsher, Oliver Stone are set as producers for the
film. Terry Hayes (screenwriter of The Road Warrior) is hired as the pensmith.
dernières
nouvelles
mai 99 (source magazine S.F.X N°70)
Le réalisateur de Armagedddon Michael BAY devrait réaliser le
remake de la planète des singes (à la place de James Cameron) la sortie du film
est prévue pour l'été 2001 et Arnold Schwarzenneger est toujours sur ce projet
en tant qu'acteur principal.
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