Planet of the Apes: Caesar

[Batty]

More news about the new POTA movie. It sounds interesting. And best of all, it's not another remake.

https://www.chud.com/articles/artic...UEST-OF-THE-PLANET-OF-THE-APESquot/Page1.html

 

[IrishJedi]

Actually, it is kind of a remake. Basically a bit of both CONQUEST of TPOTA... and BATTLE for TPOTA with some rebooting thrown in for good measure.

I can't wait. Ceasar was my favorite Ape character from the original films, even if he only appeared in those last two.

"And that day is upon you NOW!"

 

[CelticPredator]

Oh! I hope the bring Burton back!111

 

[IrishJedi]

Oh! I hope the bring Burton back!111

I hope you're being sarcastic. If not:

 

[CelticPredator]

Of course.


Even though I kinda dig Burton POTA....but still....

 

[IrishJedi]

Tim Burton's POTA is one of the worst event movies in recent times, imho.

He is so feast-or-famine. He's made some of the best... and also some of the worst... movies of our time.

I think his problem is that he's not very dimensional. He simply makes Tim Burton Movies. This works great for certain subject matter (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, etc) and horribly wrong for others (POTA, and to some extent, Batman). His Superman would also have been an abomination.

Alice In Wonderland and Dark Shadows should be right up his alley, though. Then again, I once thought the same thing about Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

 

[CelticPredator]

Tim Roth was amazing though.

And I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Its not better then Willy Wonka...but its fun to watch.

 

[Batty]

Actually, it is kind of a remake. Basically a bit of both CONQUEST of TPOTA... and BATTLE for TPOTA with some rebooting thrown in for good measure.

I guess I should have said exact remake.

 

[The Mike]

Return to the Planet of the Apes Franchise
Posted at 3:13 PM Dec 02, 2008

I actually like the Planet of the Apes franchise more than the average nerd, mostly because in addition to the first movie, I love the fourth flick: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, where the ape Caesar and his funky monkey army takes over the planet. It's disturbingly violent and 100% awesome, so when I heard that a new PotA prequel was going to be made, called Caesar, my nerd-o-meter went off the chart.

But since no nerd is allowed to ever be truly happy, I fell deep into nerd despair when I read the synopsis of the film via /Film:

At first it was rumored that the film would be a remake of Conquest of the Apes or a new film called Genesis: Apes, but according to Chud that is not the case. The project is going under the working title "Caesar". Fox's Tom Rothman says that it is "a kind of prequel story before the first story, with a return to the social thematics that mark the first one, but with an entirely contemporary setting - Earth 2009." The film won't have talking monkeys and will not end with chimps taking over Earth. Instead the film will be a hard science fiction film about humans that use science to create hyper-intelligent chimpanzees.

No thank you, Hollywood. I prefer my world-conquering apes to talk, hold rifles, and bitterly hate humans. and while I'm glad it's not technically part of the old or new PotA franchise, I'm pissed they're calling it Caesar.

You know, fan should be able to vote on the titles of these nerd films--since these are our franchises, it's the least we should get. That way Hollywood can make whatever dumb-ass movie it wants, but we get to decide if its worthy of the name. So instead of Transformers, it could have been more accurately titled Michael Bay's Giant Peeing Robots. G.I. Joe could be called Combat Douchebags. And the Star Wars prequels could be called The Movies That Necessitated the Phrase "Raped My Childhood."

 

[CelticPredator]

Tom Rothman is an idiot. Plain and simple.

 

[Batty]

You know, fan should be able to vote on the titles of these nerd films--since these are our franchises, it's the least we should get. That way Hollywood can make whatever dumb-ass movie it wants, but we get to decide if its worthy of the name. So instead of Transformers, it could have been more accurately titled Michael Bay's Giant Peeing Robots. G.I. Joe could be called Combat Douchebags. And the Star Wars prequels could be called The Movies That Necessitated the Phrase "Raped My Childhood."

Who wrote that? DekDave?

 

[The Mike]

 

[IrishJedi]

Oy!

 

[King Darkness]

Who wrote that? DekDave?

Dave for childhood

 

[Ironman1188]

Soooo, they want to jumpstart the Planet of the Apes franchise by making a movie that takes out everything that made the apes movies great? An apes movie that doesn't have talking apes? Apes that didn't emerge and evolve thru man's stupidy but that science created?
At this point I'd like to see a CGI version of the old Marvel Magazine "Terror on the Planet of the Apes" series. With today's technology it just might wind up being the best version we could get.

 

[shaun-o]

There was a nice little comic book series that came out a few years ago call "Revolution on the Planet of the Apes". It was all about Caesar and filled the gap between the last two movies. In one of the issues it states that Aldo was the true first ape to speak because of Caesars lineage. There was also short tales in each one. I had to track them down on ebay and definitely worth your time as a read if you're an Ape fan.