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A request by JOSH.
Return of the Apes was a failed attempt to reboot the Planet Apes by Oliver Stone in the early nineties. This was one of the stranger request I've been given and something I've been really interested in pulling off.
First Proposed in 1993 with a potential release date around the mid ninities, Return of the Apes would have been a reboot and major reimagining of the Planet of the Apes franchise. Unlike the previous films which generally involved space trave and future earth, the majority of the film would instead take place in earth's distant past in a time when intelligent gorillas ruled the prehistoric world.
The film would have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role as Will Robertson, a disgraced former scientist who travels back in time to prevent the extinction of the human race
The Bible would feature heavily as part of the plot. The book would prove to be much older than previously thought and would contain a secret code predicting major events throughout history. The Book of Revelations in particular would be quoted a number of times in the film with Schwarzenegger's character being considered to be the prophesised Horseman Dead.
The film would also have had numerous referrences to Lord of the Rings with characters clearly named after Tolkien characters.
There was a complete story written for this film which I will link down below. Here's the basic summary:
In the near future the human race is facing extinction due to a virus that is causing all women to give birth to still born children. It turns out that there has been a virus embedded in the human genetic code for thousands of years and the virus is only now taking effect. The human race in short has a biologic timebomb to its own extiction.
Will Robertson, a disgraced former scientist discovers the exact point in history where the virus entered the human genetic code and, along with his collegue Billy Rae Diamond, travels back in time to prevent the virus.
102000 years in the past Will arrives in prehistoric Kenya, then known as Middle Earth. Here he become involved in a conflict between ancient cave men, and a race of advanced intelligent Gorillas. The gorillas, lead by an ape called Nazgul are experimenting on humans, seeking for a way to wipeout humanity for good. The ape evenually settle on a virus they hope will kill mankind, the same virus that will survive to the near future and cause the humanrace to go extinct.
Teaming up with a human called Aragorn Ranger of the Easterlings, and condemned ape name Strider, Will and Billy must protect a young girl name Aiv (pronounced Eve) and ensure that the virus doesn't infect her. While the rest of the human race may be destend to die, by pritecting Aiv, the heroes will allow her to become the mother of modern day man and prevent the virus from surviving til the modern day.
The full plot summery here: planetoftheapes.fandom.com/wiki/Return_of_the_Apes
The cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger............................Will Roberson
Mira Sorvino.............................................Billy Rae Diasmond
Christopher Lambert.................................Aragon the Ranger of the Easterling
Bill Nighy..................................................Nazgul, President of the Gorillas
Tina Majorino............................................Aiv
Music used:
Simon is Dismissed
by John Debney
from the Passion of the Christ OST
The trailer music to Apocalypto
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A request by JOSH.
Return of the Apes was a failed attempt to reboot the Planet Apes by Oliver Stone in the early nineties. This was one of the stranger request I've been given and something I've been really interested in pulling off.
First Proposed in 1993 with a potential release date around the mid ninities, Return of the Apes would have been a reboot and major reimagining of the Planet of the Apes franchise. Unlike the previous films which generally involved space trave and future earth, the majority of the film would instead take place in earth's distant past in a time when intelligent gorillas ruled the prehistoric world.
The film would have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role as Will Robertson, a disgraced former scientist who travels back in time to prevent the extinction of the human race
The Bible would feature heavily as part of the plot. The book would prove to be much older than previously thought and would contain a secret code predicting major events throughout history. The Book of Revelations in particular would be quoted a number of times in the film with Schwarzenegger's character being considered to be the prophesised Horseman Dead.
The film would also have had numerous referrences to Lord of the Rings with characters clearly named after Tolkien characters.
There was a complete story written for this film which I will link down below. Here's the basic summary:
In the near future the human race is facing extinction due to a virus that is causing all women to give birth to still born children. It turns out that there has been a virus embedded in the human genetic code for thousands of years and the virus is only now taking effect. The human race in short has a biologic timebomb to its own extiction.
Will Robertson, a disgraced former scientist discovers the exact point in history where the virus entered the human genetic code and, along with his collegue Billy Rae Diamond, travels back in time to prevent the virus.
102000 years in the past Will arrives in prehistoric Kenya, then known as Middle Earth. Here he become involved in a conflict between ancient cave men, and a race of advanced intelligent Gorillas. The gorillas, lead by an ape called Nazgul are experimenting on humans, seeking for a way to wipeout humanity for good. The ape evenually settle on a virus they hope will kill mankind, the same virus that will survive to the near future and cause the humanrace to go extinct.
Teaming up with a human called Aragorn Ranger of the Easterlings, and condemned ape name Strider, Will and Billy must protect a young girl name Aiv (pronounced Eve) and ensure that the virus doesn't infect her. While the rest of the human race may be destend to die, by pritecting Aiv, the heroes will allow her to become the mother of modern day man and prevent the virus from surviving til the modern day.
The full plot summery here: planetoftheapes.fandom.com/wiki/Return_of_the_Apes
The cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger............................Will Roberson
Mira Sorvino.............................................Billy Rae Diasmond
Christopher Lambert.................................Aragon the Ranger of the Easterling
Bill Nighy..................................................Nazgul, President of the Gorillas
Tina Majorino............................................Aiv
Music used:
Simon is Dismissed
by John Debney
from the Passion of the Christ OST
The trailer music to Apocalypto
