PLANET OF THE APES Reboot Will Remake the Original Film … Again
Mike Sprague
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Newly relabeled 20th Century Studios and The Maze Runner trilogy director Wes Ball’s upcoming Planet of the Apes flick looks like it’s going to be a full-on remake – yet again.
Yes, today we hear via Discussing Film that the new film will not be connected to the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, which included Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes.
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Instead, the plan is for this new flick to – once again – reboot the original 1968 film.
Wes Ball will write and direct this new Planet of the Apes with David Starke and Joe Hartwick Jr producing. The film is looking to begin shooting later this year, for a release sometime in 2022.
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For those that might need a refresher course, the original 1968 film was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle and centered on three astronauts who are marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves. The stunned trio discovers that these highly intellectual simians can both walk upright and talk. They have even established a class system and a political structure. The astronauts suddenly find themselves trapped and imprisoned by the apes.
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