Zombie on 'Halloween 2', Frank on 'Apes' Prequel and Miller Off 'Justice League'
The director shuffle on meaningless movies
Keeping up with the news fanboys find interesting versus actually interesting movie news is a tiresome task. Take, for example, the three director stories that appeared online today. Of the bunch only one is actually interesting, and that's only because one of them just seems like a crap idea and the other just seems like an idea that just isn't possible, at least not without pissing off every online fanboy should it not be done exactly right. Let's tackle this like the Man with No Name shall we?
THE GOOD: The only film I am mildly interested in is the proposed new Planet of the Apes-like film and apparently it has now been confirmed that The Lookout writer/director Scott Frank is set to helm the feature and is busy rewriting the Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver previous script. It was previously said the film was a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the story of Caesar, the first ape who could speak and led the ape uprising. Frank stressed in a new interview with CHUD (which strangely doesn't include a single quote) his ape film, titled Caesar, will be nothing like Conquest, here's a snippet:
Caesar is not a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. This is a fact that Frank can't stress to you enough – his film will not feature talking monkeys, and it will not end with chimpanzees running wild in the streets, taking over the world. But it isn't entirely divorced from the world of Planet of the Apes, either. In fact, Frank sees his movie as the opening chapter in a saga that could span the thousand years between today and a world where apes rule.
What's most exciting about Caesar is that Frank is committed to telling a hard science fiction story. The science that creates a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee is based on current real world research – this film would just take that science one step further.
Actually, the idea sounds intriguing and it would seem it is the one film in this bunch I can actually take seriously.
THE BAD: Yesterday Dark Horizons reported that George Miller (Happy Feet) confirmed to the Sydney-based morning show "Sunrise" that he is no longer involved in the proposed Justice League film at Warner Bros. and that if it does get made it will be recast as "the studio seem to want bigger stars in their superhero movies now."
Miller was putting together a rag-tag group of teen TV stars for the feature making it damn near laughable. In all honesty, I just can't see this film getting made based on the current state of the Batman franchise, the slow death of the Superman franchise and the amount of money it would cost to create. The curious piece to the story is that Dark Horizons has removed the story, which was originally located here and luckily I had it saved in my browser before it disappeared. Was the reported news false? Who knows? Who cares?
THE UGLY: Shock Till You Drop is reporting Rob Zombie may be returning to the abortion of a Halloween film he created to direct the sequel. 
The news was originally a little sketchy since it was from an "insider" but the site has since updated the article with the following note:
I've been informed that Trancas International is sending out a press release in the next day or so. It appears we may be on the money with this. This afternoon, I put in one call to one of Zombie's reps and received a "no comment." In regards to something of this nature, I fully understand that the producers would want to give it a proper break in the trade papers. So, if confirmation does indeed come down in the coming days, just remember where you read it first!
I already forgot where I read it first… I also forgot why anyone would care about a film virtually everyone disliked. Ho hum.
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