‘Planet of the Apes’ Movie in the Works With ‘Maze Runner’ Director: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie, how is going to unveil the historical significant Fox titles to get the redevelopment treatment since Disney’s acquisition of the storied studio. The Apes are back, Fox has been brought on Wes Ball the filmmaker behind the popular Maze Runner film series, to develop and direct a new movie feature, as per the Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Inescapable, to know that the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film, based on a novel by French writer Pierre Boulle and features Charlton Heston, centers on an astronaut who lands on a planet and discovers an advanced ape civilization ruling over primitive humans. In the final, infamous twist, he considers he is actually on Earth, which had suffered an apocalyptic nuclear war.
The initial movie ‘Planet of the Apes’ was the commercial and critical hit upon its release and also pour out several sequels of the movie and series of the same title throughout the 1970s. However, the whole sequels and series are expected to get the fantabulous hit earlier and all set to get a huge hit in the upcoming film.
It is observed that Tim Burton remade the film in 2001 but failed to get the audience’s faithful reaction towards his movie. However, Fox got the success again to make the original of ‘Planet of the Apes’ in 2011. It was an origin story chronicling how the primates took over, which featured envelope-pushing motion-capture technology and a stirring performance by Andy Serkis as Caesar, the Moses-like leader of the apes.
Such things are inescapable to know about this upcoming movie because it is being shown unclear that whether the movie will be a new reboot or will be seen as continuing the sequel of the earlier story. Ball’s Maze Runner trilogy, set in its own dystopian future, grossed almost $1 billion worldwide while being produced on modest budgets.
The movie is expected to get the fantabulous success the previous movies and series did. Get the entire details online
