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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake!

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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50902

They're working on a "Planet of the Apes" prequel (whether its a direct prequel to the Tim Burton version, or a modern-prequel to the original, we're not sure)

Titled "Genesis: Apes", its basically a remake of the best Planet of the Apes movie, "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes"

"Genesis: Apes" is a wacky title, I don't know why they just don't call it "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes".

For those of you who only saw Planet of the Apes 1, they explain in the later movies that the way the world turned out that way was that astronauts accidentally brought back a virus from space that killed all the dogs and cats. Grief-stricken, humans eventually switched to using monkeys as household pets. From there, they noticed how easy it was to train them to do tricks and eventually, simple household tasks. Eventually, this turned into using monkeys for manual labor and switching to actual large "apes" like chimps, guerillas, and orangutans. Over time, this turned into flat-out using the apes as slave-labor, and they turned into a new slave-caste used throughout human society.

Then Caesar, the ape child of Cornelius and Zeera from Planet of the Apes (they had travelled back in time using Taylor's spaceship in "Escape from the Planet of the Apes") realizes the Apes are being used as slaves and organizes a revolt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnZHKFHmH4&NR=1

It was some of the best acting in the entire movie series; Caesar isn't presented as a dashing bloodthirsty rebel leader, but as a kind-hearted and kind of meek character who gets pushed too far and sees just how evil humanity has become (in the future, human society gets a lot worse and its all a fascist regime, and they treat the apes as actually worse than slaves because they're literally not "people") so even though Caesar leads the Apes in revolt against the humans, the mastery of film was that you come to sympathize with Caesar because of just how crazy the humans are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfyjaMvpUjg
 
How can they show Caesar as being the first talking ape without doing the backstory of Cornelius and Zira timetravelling to the past?
 
Except for the twist ending, I thought that all of the films sucked - so I have no doubt this will suck as well.
 
JoeZhang said:
Except for the twist ending, I thought that all of the films sucked - so I have no doubt this will suck as well.
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Oh I don't know about that. It was just Tim Burton's remake that did so bad. It was almost like watching some gay porn - a complete suckfest. (like how I did that?)

The original films, for the most part, had Roddy as one character or another, and he made the whole thing work. I love the films, and wish there were more of them ... but not if it means letting Burton shit all over them.
 
I find it odd how in the time between the 1960's ealy 70's(the time Cornelius and Zera traveled to) and the "Conquest of the planet of the apes" that took place in 90's, that the apes evolved so quickly to upright talking slaves.
 
Siwilliams said:
Is this going to be a prequel to Tim Burton's film?
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Sounds more like its own thing.

Could be fun. I always liked CONQUEST.

And, if it's a remake, you don't need the whole time-travel gimmick. Just make Caesar an ape prodigy. Or have him be genetically-engineered or something.

"They wanted smarter slaves. But they made them too smart . . . ."

Works for me.
 
I hope it has no relation to Tim Burton's crap.
So is this movie going to completely ignore Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from Planet of the Apes, and the final film Battle for the Planet of the Apes?
 
SG-17 said:
I hope it has no relation to Tim Burton's crap.
So is this movie going to completely ignore Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from Planet of the Apes, and the final film Battle for the Planet of the Apes?
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Who knows, but that's what I'd do. The 70's movie cycle is complete in itself. And why bog yourself down with thirty-year-old continuity?

Just start over from scratch.
 
I'll watch anything with talking Apes... esp. if they are wielding fire-arms.

Though... Genesis of the Planet of the Apes or Planet of the Apes: Genesis would be better than Genesis: Apes.

I hope they get Doug Jones to play the lead Chimp.

[FONT=arial]Now, they're reporting that Fox's Tom Rothman talks about the possible prequel in between showings of the "Planet of the Apes" movies on Fox Movie Channel this weekend.[/FONT]
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I've been tuned in all weekend and I haven't seen anything like that.
 
Conquest OTPOTA would have been a million times better if they'd kept the original ending, and not redubbed Caesar's speech, and not cut out all the heavy violence in the rioting scenes.
Now there's a film I'd like to see a Directors Cut of


Although, the police in this film are infuriatingly crap. They can't even take down a few dumb apes with clubs, compared to all of them with machine guns
 
Tim Burton's remake and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" sucked big time.

The first four of the original movies were either great, decent or watchable... in the order of 1, 4, 3, 2 I would say:
 
Ethros said:
Conquest OTPOTA would have been a million times better if they'd kept the original ending, and not redubbed Caesar's speech, and not cut out all the heavy violence in the rioting scenes.
Now there's a film I'd like to see a Directors Cut of
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That's the version FMC has been playing all weekend.
 
V said:
Titled "Genesis: Apes", its basically a remake of the best Planet of the Apes movie, "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes"
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Planet if the Apes - A true sci-fi classic, superbly done

Beneath the Planet of the Apes - Becomes really odd, but always nice to see Linda Harrison as Nova

Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Funniest of the series, but the mix of humor and violence is uneven, and how did the apes find the hatch that was blown off of Taylor's ship?

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - Um ... huh? There was no scenery left at the end of the film because every actor CHEWED it.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes - We have a bus and a cool tree house. Let's make another Apes movie

--Ted
 
Conquest was NOT the best POTA movie. :rolleyes:

It was, however, kitschy and watchable. I remember being entertained by this particular movie, as silly as it was.
 
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