{"id":1964,"date":"2008-12-01T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T00:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:30:27","slug":"planet-of-the-apes-prequelremake-gets-new-titledirector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/01\/planet-of-the-apes-prequelremake-gets-new-titledirector\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANET OF THE APES Prequel\/Remake Gets New Title\/Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/conquestoftheplanetoftheapesposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1374\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"Will a remake of CONQUEST conquer?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/conquestoftheplanetoftheapesposter-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Last month, we told you about a rather bold remake of <strong>Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes <\/strong>that was currently being kicked around 20th Century Fox. The proposed remake, titled <strong>Genesis: Apes<\/strong>, resets <strong>Conquest<\/strong>&#8216;s story of how apes overthrew humans as the rulers of the planet from\u00a0the near future to the present day. The concept was edgy enough to make me wonder if Fox would have the guts to go forward with the film.<\/p>\n<p>Now it appears that the studio has taken a step towards actually making the film by announcing that they&#8217;ve hired Scott Frank to helm the film.<\/p>\n<p>It is also now sporting a new name- <strong>Caesar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with Frank&#8217;s work, he wrote the screenplays to <strong>Get Shorty<\/strong> and <strong>Minority Report<\/strong>\u00a0before moving to the director&#8217;s chair for the indie crime drama <strong>The Lookout<\/strong>. Definitely, a good pedigree to take on this project.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126170247\/https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Planet-Of-The-Apes-Has-A-Director-11064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CinemaBlend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Last month, we told you about a rather bold remake of Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes that was currently being kicked around 20th Century Fox. The proposed remake, titled Genesis: Apes, resets Conquest&#8216;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/01\/planet-of-the-apes-prequelremake-gets-new-titledirector\/\" title=\"PLANET OF THE APES Prequel\/Remake Gets New Title\/Director\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1129,4,609,22,938,44,8,893,1130,24],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-caesar","8":"tag-classic-series","9":"tag-director","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-planet-of-the-apes","12":"tag-prequel","13":"tag-remake","14":"tag-science-fiction","15":"tag-scott-frank","16":"tag-sequel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}