'Planet of the Apes' Reboot Can't Find a Director

One of the entries in the original Planet of the Apes is serving as the inspiration for a possible reboot. Fox really wants Conquest of the Planet of the Apes to become Caesar, which would tell the story of the first intelligent ape to rise up and lead a revolution against human captors. From there, of course, the entire storyline would eventually play out. Scott Frank was brought in over a year ago to write and direct, but he's off the project now, although some version of the script is being used to lure in a new director. And that's where the problem lies: Nobody wants to do it. Vulture, the New York Magazine movie industry column, has learned that Robert Rodriguez, Tomas Alfredsson (Let the Right One In), and Kathryn Bigelow have all said no thank you, meaning Fox is looking at Plan B. To think, you could have the first female Best Director or the guy who made Let the Right One In and now you're stuck asking the dude who remade The Last House on the Left (Dennis Illiadis) or the Legion guy (Scott Stewart). Not that there's anything wrong with what those guys do, it just doesn't scream "giant tentpool reimagining," does it? It's not all bad news, because Vulture says the script has been sent to The Hughes Brothers, Pierre Morel, and James McTeigue, and of those three choices, I kind of like Allen and Albert Hughes. McTeigue might be the more popular choice, though. Morel will be way too busy with Dune to take this on, I expect. It's too early to tell who may wind up in charge (well, Fox will be in charge, unfortunately, but you know what I mean), although the fact that people are turning this down left and right probably isn't a positive sign.

Comments

[J.Bradley]

C'mon it's FOX. They made "Avatar" and it's an environmental slam that's now the biggest movie of all time and that doesn't make Rupert Murdoch's friends happy. So they're trying to balance it out by making something that'll be a slam to Obama - if they still think that radical, black activist vibe from the 70's original is still there. Just the way that many in the industry won't appear on the Fox News Network, they're not takin' the bait here either. Then of course there's the technical considerations - I mean these are APES, not people in makeup. You just can't get away with that now, I don't care how much we love the allegorical originals. Maybe if they did something like the "Avatar" effects, but then it would have to be a really, big expensive movie and they're not gonna' do that for something that would be even MORE political than "Avatar". They'd then water it down and it would have the relevance of "Battlefield Earth". YEAH, they're stayin' away.

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