I'm reminded of the incredible
Planet of the Apes DVD supplements — wasted on a film that is one of the year's worst.
Fans of the original film remember its ingenious final shot, and the new
Planet of the Apes attempts a couple of «surprise» twists as well.
Then you get movies in which the surprise endings make no damned sense whatsoever like the 2001 remake
of Planet of the Apes, but that's a different story altogether.
To sell the deception, Mendez teams up with (fictional) one - time Hollywood big leaguer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and real - life Oscar - winning make - up effects artist John Chambers (John Goodman), who worked
on Planet of the Apes and the original Star Trek series.
Maybe designer Rick Baker has too many Oscars to his name, but his work
in Planet of the Apes gave the apes personality, presence, and menace.
Dawn begins ten years after 2011's Rise in the rebooted
Planet of the Apes series, after a man - made virus dubbed simian flu spread globally, killing millions.
After years of rumours about a possible
Planet of the Apes prequel in development, 20th Century Fox announced this week that they have set a June 24th, 2011 release date for the new film, which is tentatively titled Rise of the Apes.
Also today, our own Michael Coate has a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column in which he celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original classic
Planet of the Apes with a new roundtable interview of film historians Jeff Bond, John Cork, and Lee Pfeiffer.
The special effects team behind the recent
Planet of the Apes trilogy stopped by NYCC to give fans a demonstration of their motion capture process.
Looking at that photo of Tim Roth, I still can't believe that
Planet of the Apes didn't get an Oscar nomination for Best Make - Up.
Among them is a jungle predator scene at a formal dinner, featuring the work of Terry Notary, the actor whose body movements animated all the
recent Planet Of The Apes movies (2011 - 2017).
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But some issues still niggle: the long loading times of discs; how Hollywood is still enforcing the pathetic regional coding standards (luckily this disc will play on all players, but some discs - the recent
Planet of the Apes BLU - RAY for example - doesn't); how it doesn't represent the same clear upgrade path as DVD did over VHS, etc..
Resonating with some of the cultural concerns of the late 1960's when the film was made,
Planet of the Apes sets up the classic battle of evolution verses religion, which may prove offensive to some (although the story's construct leaves room to argue that faith and science are not as different as the opinions of those who interrupt them).
It's been 10 years since the last attempt starring Mark Wahlberg disappointed critics, and 43 years since the first
Planet of the Apes which spawned a slew of other films and series.
But leaving Christmas presents under the tree for someone who doesn't exist — like
Planet of the Apes writers Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa did for trilogy lead character Caesar — is going the extra mile.
I was looking forward to it more than any other summer movie this year, but
Planet of the Apes turns out to be the worst movie by a Great American Director since Brian De Palma slogged his way through Mission to Mars last year.
Despite employing the most hallowed, and yet derided, visual icon in science fiction: that of the Statue of Liberty in the midst of a post-apocalyptic desert landscape,
Planet of the Apes remains a modern science fiction classic.
First announced back in February, the videogame is set in the new
Planet of the Apes universe with one slight twist to the films, you play one of the apes.
With a filmography that includes Midnight Express, Angela's Ashes, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, New Zealand cinematographer Michael Seresin found his most epic projects yet in the
updated Planet of the Apes series.
Supposedly based on a novel by Pierre Boulle, which was also the basis for the 1968 original,
Planet of the Apes begins with astronaut / anthropologist Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) aboard a training ship for monkeys.
Untitled Planet of the Apes Sequel (July 14, 2017) Who needs a title when you've got director Matt Reeves and writer Mark Bomack staying on from Dawn of the POTA?
Following Rise and Dawn, this third film in the
modern Planet of the Apes trilogy sees Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his kind at war with an army of humans - led by a ruthless man known as the Colonel (Woody Harrelson).