Rifkin turned in Return To The Planet Of The Apes, which took place long after an ape civil war that put the gorilla, General Izan, in power and brought about ‘the Roman era’ of ape civilization.
As a fan of Planet Of The Apes, Rifkin was interested in bringing it back, and was commissioned to write “an alternate sequel to the first film” rather than a sixth instalment – the kind of idea that later reared its head when 2006’s Superman Returns is a sequel to the first two Christopher Reeve movies, and with Neill Blomkamp’s discussed sequel to Aliens. In 1988, Fox brought in Adam Rifkin to pitch ideas off the back of his little-seen debut film, Never On Tuesday. Jacobs to come up with a sequel.Īfter the original series reached a circular conclusion in Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, the popularity of repeat marathons of the five films on US television got Fox interested in reinvigorating the franchise in the late 1980s, beginning a long and frustrating path to what would eventually become Tim Burton’s 2001 film, Planet Of The Apes, starring Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, and Helena Bonham Carter.įor the following decade, filmmakers as varied as Oliver Stone, Peter Jackson, and James Cameron all ran up against the studio’s difficult demands for the property and generated a number of potential scripts that ultimately went unproduced… Return To The Planet Of The Apes The 1968 original was the result of a long period of development on adapting Pierre Boulle’s visionary novel La Planète Des Singes for the screen, but when it became a surprise hit, Fox soon asked producer Arthur P. The development hell that plagued Fox’s past attempts to expand the franchise must seem like a long way away now, but it’s fascinating to look back at what might have been, going all the way back to the beginning. Together, the three films take Caesar from domestication to domination and have been huge critical and financial hits for the studio.
Their resultant pitch to 20th Century Fox led to 2011’s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, the excellent, emotional prequel/reboot of the franchise that led to 2014’s Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and recent trilogy topper, War For The Planet Of The Apes. Apparently, it was a while before the two of them realized that they were writing a Planet Of The Apes movie. In 2006, screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver were inspired by footage of domesticated chimpanzees who were unable to adjust to our lifestyles to write a sci-fi horror spec script that they called Genesis.
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