A by-the-numbers retelling of Pocahontas or Dances with Wolves -- where all the characters are one-dimensional. Visually stunning, yes -- but with shallow characterizations. There's not much else to say about them since we're not presented with their context. No one wanted to like this more than me. I was hoping the flavor of the original series had been brought back -- but I'm afraid if we can't resurrect Rod Serling or enlist a writer of his caliber, we'll never see it again.
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The release date timeline for all of the Planet of the Apes movies, including the more recent remake and reboot trilogy, is as follows:. Below is a breakdown of the four distinct timelines which make up the entire Planet of the Apes movie franchise.
This original Planet of the Apes timeline only accounts for the first two films of the pentalogy, Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes. There are some discrepancies with the original timeline; Planet of the Apes establishes the starting point in the year However, Beneath seems to retcon this, placing the action several months after the events of Planet of the Apes but moves it to the year Some argue a technical malfunction on Brent's spaceship in Beneath led to a false computer reading, stating the year was when he crash lands in his search for Taylor.
As such, the year is the authoritative starting point where the original timeline is concerned. An alternate timeline is established in the final three films of the original Planet of the Apes pentalogy Escape from the Planet of the Apes , Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Later, Franklin is found dead in his apartment, his face covered in blood. Will discovers the deadliness of the virus and attempts to warn Jacobs, but Jacobs insists on proceeding with the tests, most notably Koba, Will quits his job at Gen-Sys Laboratories , angry with Jacobs for his decisions.
Caesar eventually escapes from the primate facility and travels to Will's house, where he steals some canisters of an air-borne strain of ALZ and returns to the facility, releasing it throughout the cage area and enhancing the intelligence and mental capabilities of himself and his fellow apes. The next day, he examines the apes and realizes they are Evolved Apes like him, with his people now more intelligent, Caesar begins to put another plan into action.
That evening Dodge notices Caesar in the play area when he is not supposed to be. When Dodge tries to get him back into his cage, Caesar shocks everyone by speaking for the first time, yelling NO! Caesar then knocks Dodge out and puts him in a cage before freeing the other apes. The apes witness the remaining night watchman, Rodney , enter and start beating the watchman until Caesar stops them because Rodney was kind to the apes. Instead Caesar locks Rodney in a cage.
Dodge then wakes up and Caesar sprays him with a hose while his electric cattle-prod is turned on, electrocuting and killing him when he attempts to attack Caesar again. Caesar then releases Buck and the apes at the facility.
They escape the facility by breaking the windows above the play area and climbing through them, and then flee into the city. Caesar divides his forces in two, with his group making their way to the Gen-Sys lab as he knows some of the shelter apes including Lucky and Cornelia. Meanwhile, Buck releases the apes at the San Francisco Zoo , successfully leading an escape of hundreds of apes through the streets of San Francisco, terrorizing the city and its people.
The apes then use a trolley to head for their next target, the Golden Gate Bridge. They planned to cross the bridge to get to the Muir Woods Park redwoods, but are forced to battle a police blockade on the bridge. Caesar, realizing something is up, stops his army and launches a three-pronged plan.
Most of the chimpanzees, guided by Koba , bypass the blockage by traversing the bridge's high-wire supports. The orangutans and some of the chimpanzees led by Maurice bypass the blockage by traveling along the bottom supports. The gorillas and several other chimps, headed by Caesar, Buck and Rocket confront the blockage directly, going straight across the bridge.
Caesar has the gorillas push a bus in front of the police bullets and then steal a police horse. Caesar orders his army to attack, resulting a fierce battle. Despite their advanced weapons, the police are defeated by the apes. However, Jacobs arrives in a helicopter and Police Chief John Hamil who begins gunning down a few of the apes before setting sights on Caesar. Buck sacrifices himself to save Caesar by jumping into the helicopter and attacking the pilot.
This causes the helicopter to crash onto the bridge, killing everyone except for Jacobs, who is trapped beneath the wreckage. Koba seizes his chance for revenge and sends Jacobs falling to his death into the bay below.
Most of the apes survive the battle, and escape into the Muir Woods Park redwood forest. Will steals a police car and follows the apes, arriving at the forest. He calls for Caesar until he is suddenly attacked by Koba. However, Caesar appears to stop the angry bonobo before he can do any more harm to Will. Will then warns Caesar that the humans are strong and could do serious harm to him and his people. He promises to protect Caesar if he only comes home, where it is safe.
Caesar, looking upon his followers and now being capable of basic human speech, hugs Will and informs him "Caesar is home. The ending scene shows the apes making way for Caesar as he climbs to the top of his favorite tree, where he is joined by Maurice and Rocket on adjacent trees. The apes look over San Francisco watching the chaos they inflicted unfold on the humans. A mid-credit scene reveals that neighbor Hunsiker, who had been infected with the virus by the now-deceased Franklin unintentionally , is a pilot.
As he walks into the airport, he stops in front of the a flight board to wipe his nose, which is dripping blood. The flight board transitions to a flight map showing a single flight leaving New York , heading across the Atlantic.
When the graphic touches Paris, the graphic shows air routes branch out from Paris to cities near and far around the world. Each of these destination graphics branch out to cities across Europe and Asia. The globe turns underneath as the flight paths cover the Earth, showing the spread of the simian flu pandemic, in which the human population is decimated.
The concept originated with an idea by screen-writing partners Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa , as Jaffa explained in "The idea came together from several different sources and bits I'd been working on and staring at for a long time, one of which was the amount of people in our country that are raising chimps and primates in their home, some as pets, but many as children.
I'd done a lot of research for other projects about genetic engineering, and then I had been reading a lot of accounts of people who had been attacked by their own chimpanzees after having raised them. So a lot of those ideas were just sitting there, and they just coalesced one day as an idea for 'Planet of the Apes'. And I swear, I just said, 'Oh my god. This is Planet of the Apes! The idea was just one of those things that came together so strongly and so quickly that we called up and pitched it, and then they talked it over and decided to go through with it.
This is , so Hutch Parker was President of Production then and, you know, we got so lucky. We were sure that Fox was already developing this.
After re-acquainting himself with the movies via an Apes marathon, the history lesson from talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira in Escape from the Planet of the Apes had stuck with Jaffa and would become the starting point of the script: "We picked a part of So, we knew that was going be a big part of the narrative, and we kind of worked forwards and backwards and we kind of built to that.
This wasn't exactly what Jaffa had envisioned: "We never wanted to compete with the original and the Statue of Liberty. What our concept was really, from what we said to Fox, was we want to approach this in a very realistic way. Meaning, what's going on in our world today, that if the right dominoes were to line up, touch each other, it could lead to apes taking over the planet and, perhaps, getting Colonel Taylor on that beach in thirty-nine hundred years.
So, it does explain how the apes took over, but this is a different Caesar we're looking at, it's not the same Caesar. It's a different story of who Caesar is, and how he came to be.
So it's really kind of hard to put a label on it. We are hopefully rebooting it Maybe thirty - an unbelievable number. But in early drafts, like, , drafts, the Caesar character is motivated more by revenge. He has more of a Michael Corleone trajectory. The over-riding theme that this film would share with the original was that "Man's hubris will be his downfall". That was all surprising to us, because we never really thought of it that way. It was announced that Scott Frank screenwriter of Minority Report and director of the film The Lookout would direct and had asked Scott Rudin to serve as producer the two had enjoyed working together on Little Man Tate twenty years earlier.
Silver and Jaffa wrote "a draft and a half" for Frank, who then decided to rewrite the script himself, with Silver and Jaffa relegated to the role of co-producers. Frank stressed it would be a sci-fi movie inspired by Planet of the Apes not a remake of Conquest , about a genetically altered chimpanzee who leads an ape revolution. Frank further explained the film would not enter active development until February He wanted to make a hard science fiction film about genetic engineering, and use computer-generated imagery to portray Caesar's evolution.
During , however, Scott Frank left the project. It was reported that it was too expensive and seen as too dark, and might have been too cerebral for the studio that makes movies like X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Fox briefly hired writer Jamie Moss Street Kings to rework Frank's script, but the future of Caesar seemed up in the air.
Then, over Christmas , the original writers were brought back and told to prepare a new draft urgently. We worked with Scott, and he was functioning as the director and we were the writers, and we did a few drafts with him. That was over a period of a few months, and then Scott did one draft and then moved on. There was more development, and then we were brought back at some point to bring it back to a version of where we started. So Scott did one draft.
Amanda Silver believed one major improvement was the development of the character of Will's father replacing the geneticist's wife from earlier drafts. The Golden Gate Bridge now became the focal point of the ending, satisfying Tom Rothman's demand for an iconic image like the Statue of Liberty.
Wyatt later recalled, "Just after I had finished 'The Escapist' I was sent the script for this, pre-Scott Frank, and it was a very different movie. It was written by the same writers, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who originated the script. Contrary to a lot of reports, people think this was Scott Frank's project from conception, which it wasn't.
They had a take on it that ultimately was very different from the film you saw. Scott Frank got involved in that and developed it in a certain direction the studio didn't want to go, didn't see eye-to-eye, I'm not entirely sure what happened but he left the project.
Rick and Amanda came back onto the project and then the studio decided it was a film they really wanted to make. They started seeking a new director, which is when I came in. Rick and Amanda in the meantime had reconfigured certain aspects of the original script and evolved it to such a place that when I got the script I remembered it from three years before but it had become very different and much more exciting to me. It became less a story of domesticization of a pet and more about an uprising and a Che Guevara story.
Will is a doctor trying to cure Alzheimers, a disease that afflicts his father. He's working with monkeys to create a benign virus that can get into brain tissue and restore functionality.
After his research is shut down he's left with just one chimp, the child of his most promising subject, and Will raises him at home. Young Caesar is incredibly intelligent for an ape, and over time he continues to mutate and evolve, looking less like a chimp and moving on from sign language to actual speech. Eventually Caesar ends up leading an army of apes in an uprising just as a catastrophe strikes mankind.
A female scientist is named Stewart, which was the name of the female Icarus crew-member. Dodge and Landon , also Icarus crew-members in the original film, appear as names, but in very different roles than in 'Planet of the Apes'.
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