At the gates of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ we remember that “reimagination” from 2001 that would have been better kept in a drawer
With the success of the new ‘Planet of the Apes’ saga (whose fourth installment, ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’, arrives this Friday), it seems that We have forgotten that reboot attempt that Tim Burton perpetrated in 2001 and that, although it was a financial success, it left everyone in the dark. The story of his fall from grace is fascinating, but James Cameron knew how to summarize it in just a couple of crushing sentences. Eye.
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In 1988, twenty years after ‘Planet of the Apes’, at Fox they considered making a new sequel that it had minimum quality standards again after the successive sequels were losing both weight and budget (even so, I recommend you see them, they are incredibly imaginative). The idea was not to make a sixth part, but rather an alternative second installment that was going to star Tom Cruise or Charlie Sheen. And yet, the house of cards fell under its own weight. It was the first of many nonsense that ended in nothing.
Filmmakers like – pay attention to the names – Peter Jackson, Oliver Stone, Sam Raimi, Chuck Russell, Phillip Noyce, Chris Columbus, Roland Emmerich and James Cameron They were passed through the chair of director of truncated projects related to the franchise until, finally, Tim Burton achieved it with his idea of not to make a remake or a sequel, but a “reimagination”…and Cameron, who was about to film his point of view on ‘Planet of the Apes’, had no problem saying in Ain’t It Cool what he thought of her.
They made, I think, possibly the most outrageous movie they could have made because they got the wrong director. It’s the only Tim Burton movie I don’t like.
Burton honestly agrees, and has commented on some occasion that, If I had to make a sequel to ‘Planet of the Apes’, I’d rather jump out the window. And not only did he have to face a quick shoot (he only had nine months to shoot, edit and release), but nothing went as it should and as he wanted, making continuous bad decisions. The result is that we all remember him in cold sweats… if Caesar’s story hasn’t made us forget about it and we have buried it forever in our collective memory.
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