The husband and wife writing duo of Silver and Jaffa pitched a Planet of the Apes reboot to 20th Century Fox in 2006 and, at the time, Fox seemingly had no plans for more movies featuring those "damn, dirty apes." But the screenwriting duo's inventive take was impossible to resist.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes was always envisioned as a movie told primarily from Caesar's point of view. In honor of Rise's tenth anniversary, SYFY WIRE plays "what if." and compares some of the movie's original scripts to what fans saw in the final film. But this wasn't the version of Caesar the filmmakers originally had in mind. Caesar's emotionally stirring arc helped Rise of the Planet of the Apes overperform at the box office, thus spawning one of the last decade's best film series. In Rise, Caesar goes from lab experiment to revolutionary leader as man's latest attempt to play god forces apes to once again dominate the planet as the seemingly more evolved primates (us) succumb to a fatal virus. A story told predominantly from the apes' perspective - one specific ape in particular, Caesar (played via mo-cap by the scary-talented Andy Serkis). Rise would succeed where Burton's bloated film failed by using science fiction to tell a more grounded, character-driven cautionary tale.
Rise, a prequel that intentionally played it loose-ish with its connections to the 1968 original starring Charlton Heston, was a reboot that few had high expectations for the last time the word "reimagining" was mentioned alongside Planet of the Apes, it was Tim Burton's expensive and disappointing 2001 entry starring Mark Wahlberg. That was the theme that Rise of the Planet of the Apes screenwriters Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa built their reimagining of the classic franchise upon when the movie came out ten years ago this week on Aug.
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