New PLANET OF THE APES Movie Being Written Over ZOOM
Mike Sprague
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20th Century Studios and The Maze Runnerdirector Wes Ball’s new Planet of the Apes flick will continue Caesar’s legacy from the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy.
Yesterday, Ball promised the new film is still moving forward and today he says it’s currently being written … over Zoom.
Ball tells Discussing Film: “That’s still very much on my mind, still very much my motivation and directive…We were in the development phase. So we’re writing. I was already meeting with my writer Josh Friedman on Zoom for weeks before this all hit. We already had a routine of jumping on Zoom and chatting about the script. In that sense, nothing has really changed. What I found a little bit myself is that I’ve been incredibly bursting with ideas in this time. I guess maybe because of being locked up? I’m pretty fortunate that I have an escape. I have a loft that I share with my screenwriter buddy T.S Nowlin – so it’s kind of a little retreat from home to go and try to be creative, productive, and work on my projects.”
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Wes Ball will write and direct 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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War for the Planet of the Apes centered on Caesar’s apes being forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by Woody Harrelson. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and Harrelson are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both of their species and the future of the planet.
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