Rupert Wyatt to direct Planet of the Apes reboot

Posted on March 15, 2010
Filed Under Prequel, Reboot, Remake, Sequel, TV show

Dark Horizons reports that Rupert Wyatt has become the front runner to direct 20th Century Fox’s “Planet of the Apes” reboot – aka “Caesar” (or “Planet of the Apes: Genesis”). Apparently the writers put in not only many little nods to the original “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” from which much of the premise is based, but quite a few to the original 1968 “Planet of the Apes“.

The general story has a doctor trying to find the cure for Alzheimer. After his research is shut down, he takes home and raises Caesar, the child of his most promising chimp experiment subject. Caesar continues to evolve and soon leads an army of apes in an uprising around the same time humanity is hit by a catastrophe.

One of the more interesting touches are numerous references to the launch and disappearance of the Icarus led by Colonel Taylor, the lead character and ship which crashed on the future Earth in the original 1968 ‘Apes’. The other is that the cataclysm that hits humanity ties in to the genetic mutation and explains not just how the apes evolve enough to lead an uprising, but why the apes in the original series looked nothing like the modern apes of today.

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