Matt Reeves to direct "War for the Planet of the Apes"

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/planet-of-the-apes-3-matt-reeves-director/

Matt Reeves To Helm ‘Planet Of The Apes 3′
By MIKE FLEMING JR

EXCLUSIVE: Right after 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment began screening his cut of Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Matt Reeves has signed on to direct the third installment of the franchise. This time, he will write the script with Mark Bomback, who scripted the sequel to Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, which grossed $482 million worldwide in 2011. The directing deal is done and the writer deals are being worked out right now. It is likely that Reeves will go right into the third film, a priority for the studio.

The sequel is set to debut July 11, 2014, and it stars Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke and Keri Russell, with Andy Serkis reprising his role as Caesar, the intelligent ape that led the breakout from a lab before much of the human race was wiped out at the close of the first film. The survivors square off against Caesar’s growing army in the second film. The pic is based on the Pierre Boulle novel, and was first turned into a film that starred Charlton Heston in 1968.

Peter Chernin is producing the series for Chernin Entertainment. Reeves, who helmed Cloverfield and the remake Let Me In, is repped by CAA, Howard Klein at 3 Arts and attorney Karl Austen.

Obviously that won't be the title, but we can edit that when we get an official one.

Fox must be impressed with what he brought to the table.

 

[mclay18]

Wow. Reeves must've blown the Fox execs away with the early cut of Dawn of the Apes in order for him to be offered the gig on a third film.

 

[Solidus]

Ya they must like what he's done. Good news.

 

[Sawyer]

Wonder what the time period of the third might be.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

The future...which is actually the past.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Reeves is an extremely talented director so he must've really impressed the heads at Fox with DOTPOTA to the point that he's signed on for the third film when the sequel hasn't even been released.

 

[Sawyer]

The future...which is actually the past.

Don't get DS with me, DS.

 

[MrMaooz]

Will this be a trilogy?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Don't get DS with me, DS.

Twist upon a twist, it's actually the future after all...in a different dimension where the apes ruled earth first, only to be dethroned by the humans after nuclear war

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Will this be a trilogy?

Reboot/Remake.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, yes, but that doesn't negate Rise/Dawn/POTA3 from being a trilogy.

 

[marvelrobbins]

I have feeling third film will be loose remake of original apes film.Rise had easter egg of space mission to Mars being lost on TV.Astrounauts on that mission may discover in third film a ape dominated earth.

Rise Is loose remake of conquest and dawn Is loose remake of Battle

 

[kedrell]

Wow. Reeves must've blown the Fox execs away with the early cut of Dawn of the Apes in order for him to be offered the gig on a third film.

I'm not all that surprised. Reeves is top shelf. I mean, the man made 2 films in a row that I loved. Not just liked, I ****ing love them. Do you know how rare that is?

For me this is good news and bad news because it means he's gonna be tied up with this franchise for a while. I really wanted him to try his hand at a Marvel movie sometime soon.

 

[superhero]

can see lots of squeals for plant of the apes movie does any one like the original or the squeal to 1970s plant of the apes movies?

 

[Sawyer]

lol oh other echostation...

 

[kedrell]

The first 3 are alright. My favorites are the 1st and 3rd but #2 is watchable. 4 and 5 went down the crapper, IMO.

 

[Britannic]

It's really great news and makes me even more excited about 'Dawn' if it's possible.

 

[redhawk23]

I have feeling third film will be loose remake of original apes film.Rise had easter egg of space mission to Mars being lost on TV.Astrounauts on that mission may discover in third film a ape dominated earth.

Rise Is loose remake of conquest and dawn Is loose remake of Battle

I hope they don't go right into the whole astronaut return thing. Theres been a variety of media over the years, comics and such that have speculated about the time After Battle and before the original film. Some interesting stories can be told about the developing ape culture and the further deterioration of the human race. There have been some stories involving the "Lawgiver" who established the ape religion and such. Good potential there no matter what direction they take.

Also does a Taylor story work when its already established that we're on a Planet of the Apes? I mean the only thing that saves Beneath from being a complete retread of the first film with another astronaut landing among the apes is the whole "screw it we're going to have nuclear mutants" angle.

Sidenote some people over at Badass Digest were throwing around possible names, mostly joke ones, for the third film "Reign of the Planet of the Apes" has a nice ring to it.

 

[redhawk23]

The first 3 are alright. My favorites are the 1st and 3rd but #2 is watchable. 4 and 5 went down the crapper, IMO.

You're free to your opinion but I love 4. Conquest has some great moments including Cesar's speech at the end (if you ignore the last few lines they had to add on to make it slightly less dark and preserve their rating)

 

[kedrell]

You're free to your opinion but I love 4. Conquest has some great moments including Cesar's speech at the end (if you ignore the last few lines they had to add on to make it slightly less dark and preserve their rating)

I can't get passed the nonsense change in the way the apes eventually took over(or at least evolved to the point where they could actually threaten to do so). In #3 Cornelius explains that it was basically human interference with ape evolution via making them pets that over the course of many centuries got the apes to their advanced state. Centuries he said, mind you. But in the sequel it's just a few short years later. That just doesn't work for me. Plus you know, the whole fact that the production looked rather cheap in comparison to the previous films really just hindered it for me. #4 is bad but it's better than #5, which was awful TV-level schlock.

 

[redhawk23]

I understand not being able to get past the mere 20 year difference between 3 and 4. The fact that it is set in 1991 is pretty much ridiculous but for whatever reason I've always been able to just kind of roll with it because I like the story over all (also having been born in 1991 I've always thought the time setting was hilarious, even as a kid). "Just rolling with it" has always been fairly necessary with this franchise though. Its kind of ridiculous that it continued after the 2nd anyways considering it was written to be a definitive ending upon Heston's demands.

That's actually a good point in how the the ridiculousness of the 20 year difference really does do a great disservice to Cornelius' explanation of the ape evolution.

 

[kedrell]

Yeah, and frankly it's the main sticking point with the reboot for me as well. I still liked RotPotA but the quickness of it diminished the sci-fi coolness of the premise for me. I like how in the original mythos it's an epically long tale spread over millennia that sort of works as a puzzle of what happened during the years Taylor was asleep and 1-3 are all needed to fill in the gaps, a little bit with each film. I love that kind of big ida/ big (false) history stuff. Condensing the timeframe just hurts it all, IMO. We know evolution is SLOW. Even if it's artificially helped along by human intelligence/action it still ain't overnight.

 

[redhawk23]

I didn't think Rise went too far. The Alzheimer's gene therapy angle was an interesting mechanic for the ape intelligence. Prior to the plague or what have you it actually limited the scale quite nicely. It wasn't apes taking over the world but rather a group of apes escaping into the woods.

 

[kedrell]

What Rise did was all nice and neat and easy and quick, which is exactly what bugged me. At least in comparison to the more drawn out and buy-able explanation that Cornelius gave in Escape. That's just my biggest gripe with that film. It shows a lack of ambition or vision or whatever. But as I said before, I still ultimately enjoyed the film and hope that the sequels can smooth over some of this stuff by drawing on a bigger canvas, timeframe-wise.

History is rarely ever a straight line of A - to -B when it comes to cause and effect. There are usually a million little twists and turns and unforeseen variables that all collectively lead from A to B and so on. That makes it seem realistic and easy to believe. Fake history in a movie should emulate that if they want easy suspension of disbelief.

 

[MrMaooz]

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