Last month, my man Jake brought you the news that 20th Century Fox is still plotting a way to bring Scott Frank’s PLANET OF THE APES reboot – called CAESAR – to the big screen. Easier said than done.
According to New York Magazine (which first broke the story about the CAESAR plans), Fox producer Peter Chernin has approached directors Kathryn Bigelow, Robert Rodriguez, and Tomas Alfredson (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN) about helming the flick, and all have turned him down. Ouch.
Now Chernin is apparently considering a whole slew of directors, including Albert and Allen Hughes (The Book of Eli); Pierre Morel (Taken); James McTeigue (Ninja Assassin); Dennis Illiadis (The Last House on the Left), and Scott Stewart (Legion). I’m sure one of those people will take the project. Right..?
As far as the project itself goes, CAESAR refers to “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. : Like the actual Julius Caesar, the ape begins a guerrilla war and emerges the emperor of the known world.”
Estella Warren, from Fox’s first attempt at an APES reboot.