![]() Rise of the Apes centres on a scientist in modern-day San Francisco (James Franco) working on a cure for Alzheimer's by testing on simians. The film will not be based on any of the movies in the original series, though it will half-inch some of their ideas. As revealed this week in the trades, Fox has announced plans for a prequel to be titled Rise of the Apes. The original Planet of the Apes series ran to five films, with increasingly poor returns each time. Where the original had some intelligent things to say about prejudice, racial stereotyping and our treatment of animals, Burton's version seemed to lose the brainy stuff amidst all the fighting and explosions.īut at least, we all thought, that was that. ![]() Instead of the original's fable-like quality – brought about in part by the rather dodgy (though it was groundbreaking at the time) monkey makeup – we got superb but strangely soulless modern prosthetics. It was Mark Wahlberg himself who supposedly said, when asked if he would consider starring in a sequel to Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes: "I'd rather jump out a window." The 2001 film was a big misfire which watered down the original's nihilism in favour of a misguided Hollywood action tone.
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