Thursday, February 28, 2013

Oldman Resists The "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"

Gary Oldman is joining the cast of the upcoming sequel "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" says THR.

The film will continue the action from last year's Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Set 15 years later and human society contiues collapsing after a viral outbreak and the highly intelligent simians now free, the story will follow the apes on their path to emerge as society’s new rulers.

Oldman plays the leader of a human colony, a diplomat with has a military background and was, curiously enough, a former police commissioner.


"Rise" helmer Rupert Wyatt chose not to return reportedly due to the fact that the director wasn't comfortable with making the May 23rd 2014 release date the studio had announced. "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves takes over.

Star James Franco may not be back--Zero Dark Thirty actor Jason Clarke Andy Serkis, and Kodi Smit-McPhee also star

Mark Bomback ("Live Free or Die Hard," "Unstoppable") is set to rework Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa's script. Bombeck is expected to turn in something more suited to the new director's style. This is Deja Vu On 'Rise' Silver & Jaffa wrote the initial script and then Bomback did an uncredited script rewrite.

"Contagion" scribe Scott Z. Burns took a crack at the "Dawn" script as well

Peter Chernin Dylan Clark Silver and Jaffa will produce.

It's hoped that production starts by Spring

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