Director Colin Trevorrow revealed a very different original Jurassic World script by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver than the one that ultimately came to be.
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Read my Frank Marshall interview where I talk to the producer about Jurassic World, Indiana Jones 5, Back to the Future, Assassin's Creed, Bourne and more.
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A Mulan live-action remake is in development at Disney. The studio has just picked up a script and set J.C. Spink and Chris Bender to produce.
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It's less than a month until we return to an Earth that has been dramatically reshaped into a place that could soon be called a planet of the apes, and Fox has released one last big look at its latest chapter in the long-running saga. Half of this final Dawn of the Planet of the…
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The Avatar Sequel Writers have finally been confirmed. We now know the correct breakdown of who is writing which of the three films coming to theaters.
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James Cameron wants to shoot 3 Avatar sequels at the same time. To do so, he had to write 3 scripts at the same time and he used the TV model to help.
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After the jump: Ju-On: The Grudge is getting another sequel The Dark Crystal sequel is still in development Better Call Saul will shoot in Albuquerque Read the first chapter of the Apes prequel book Take a peek at the first Minions teaser poster 22 Jump Street reveals a couple more clips See another poster for Transformers…
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Ron Howard's latest film, Rush, isn't even yet in theaters across most of the world, but the filmmaker is already making his next movie. That movie is Heart of the Sea, a period adventure film based on a novel by Nathaniel Philbrick. It tells the true story that inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick and stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin…
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Briefly: Yesterday we heard that James Cameron had brought in Sarah Connors Chronicles writer Josh Friedman to help script Avatar 2. Turns out, there's a lot more going on in the Avatar camp than that one personnel addition. In fact, Fox and Cameron are now officially planning three Avatar sequels. The film trio will be shot…
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Matt Reeves is about to take over the world. The director of Cloverfield and Let Me In now confirmed to helm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The director of that film, Rupert Wyatt, was expected to return for this follow-up, but left the…
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Life finds a way, right? That can hold true for the life of film franchises, even ones that lay dormant for a decade or more. A fourth Jurassic Park film has been a project hovering in various states of limbo since not long after the release of Joe Johnston's Jurassic Park III in 2001. Last…
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes was one of the biggest surprises of 2011. Directed by relative newcomer Rupert Wyatt and delving back into a franchise that most people felt had long since died, the movie's high quality helped it break out as a undeniable hit, grossing $176 million domestically. As tends to be the…
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Fox is already at work pulling together a film to follow Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which became a surprise audience and critical favorite this summer. Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, writers on Rise, are writing the next film, which Wyatt is currently slated to direct. We don't know any specifics…
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If you've seen either version of Planet of the Apes, the overall outcome of Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes shouldn't have come as a huge shock -- the end result is spelled out right there in the title, after all. But there was one key element of the ending that nearly turned out…
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The history of Rise of the Apes, the Planet of the Apes prequel to be directed by The Escapist's Rupert Wyatt, goes back a few years. It was set in motion at Fox by Scott Frank, who developed a script called Caesar, which was intended as "a hard science fiction film about humans that use…
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20th Century Fox has announced a June 24th 2011 release date for the Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt will direct from a screenplay by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa. Fox has released the official plot synopsis: RISE OF THE APES (tentative title) is an origin story…
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20th Century Fox has hired Rupert Wyatt to develop and direct a prequel to Planet of the Apes. Wyatt directed The Escapist which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to medium buzz and decent reviews. I wasn't taken by the movie, but I know it was one of Alex from FirstShowing's favorite movies of…
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