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Adam Chitwood said:Burns was also involved with writing the script for the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and with Matt Reeves now onboard to direct the film and production moving forward, Steve asked Burns if they would be using his version of the script. The scribed admitted he was unsure, but he did talk a bit about why Rupert Wyatt left the project:
“I have no idea [if they’re using my script], Rupert Wyatt and I worked on a draft last summer that I think we were both really excited about and he went into Fox and they seemed to like it, they wanted a lot of changes and they sort of parted ways over those changes. Then management shifted at fox, they brought in a new director, I think the new director wanted a new writer and I don’t know how much of what we did and I wrote is ongoing. It’s kind of heartbreaking because I really loved what we were trying to say with that movie so I hope some of it survives or that they came up with something a lot better.”
The scribe noted that while he loved the apes portions of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, his goal was to make the human characters more interesting:
“I felt the way about it that I think a lot of the people involved did, which was that I loved the apes, but I felt that the human characters needed to be more interesting and that was sort of my task when we started talking about the second one. I was loving it, it was a really fun world to play in. It’s really heartbreaking when these things sort of leave you and you’re not even sure why.”
I know, but I just think it's stupid title. I know it's a franchise name but what's the point of including 'Planet' if they haven't taken over the planet yet?. I still think that the first prequel should have been called 'Rise Of The Apes'. It's simple and an obvious prequel name to 'Planet Of The Apes'.
I agree,I've seem Let Me in and Cloverfield,and thought they were pretty good.This unknown direction kind of worries me,but I have hopes that after the success of Rises they know what the right direction is.As weird as it sound I'm trusting FOX not to screw things up.I like Reeves a lot and think he will do a solid job. Even with his Let the Right One in remake, while he took a lot of inspiration from the original film, he also took the opportunity to play around with some inventive camera work like in the car wreck scene. He has a lot of focus on character interaction even in things where such a focus may seem superfluous like in Cloverfield. He can handle effects work even on fairly low budgets.
It is unknown at this time as to what's going on with script but as far as direction I think the film is in good hands.
For the record, as fun as some of the references to the old films were in Rise, I hope Dawn goes easy on that kind of thing. There were a few times where it was a bit too much. Suprisingly the Damned dirty ape thing didn't bother me as it actually worked in the new context. Felton also shouting out Heston's "it's a madhouse!" was forced and unneeded.