![]() ![]() The Apes brand had been damaged from Tim Burton’s poorly received 2001 reboot, and their pitch to Fox for the property came with a twist: the apes, not the humans, would be the protagonists. When they settled on Planet of the Apes, the deck was stacked against the project. So the character was kind of born in our minds before we made the connection to, ‘Oh my god, this could be Planet of the Apes.” “We really set out to tell the story of one character. “The concept was always Caesar’s character, and we didn’t set out to reinvent Planet of the Apes,” says Jaffa. Initially, Silver and Jaffa didn’t conceive of Caesar being as part of the Apes universe. ![]() In 2018 there’s the live-action Mulan for Disney, followed by James Cameron’s Avatar 2 (2020) and Avatar 3 (2021).īut perhaps their greatest trick so far has been reviving Planet of the Apes. 4 on the all-time list), and they have more tentpoles on the way. The pair’s biggest commercial success to date has been 2015’s Jurassic World, which earned a massive $1.6 billion worldwide (it’s No. The pair wrote 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes and 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and they produced War, which has a script by director Matt Reeves and Mark Bomback.įollowing the success of Rise, Silver and Jaffa have carved out a rare niche in Hollywood, penning creatively ambitious films that also happen to make hundreds of millions at the box office. The 'Planet of the Apes' Refresher Course You Need Before Seeing 'War'
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