John Lithgow and Freida Pinto have signed onto Rise of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt’s upcoming prequel to Planet of the Apes for Fox, says THR.com They join James Franco, who portrays a scientist who has been working on a cure for Alzheimer’s that is
being tested on apes. The test subject named Caesar evolves
rapidly, and the scientist takes him home to live with him and
protects him from cruel doctors. Lithgow will play Franco’s Alzheimer’s-stricken father. Pinto is
the movie’s female lead, a primatologist. Filming begins this summer in British Columbia.
Lithgow is coming off an acclaimed stint as the villainous Arthur Mitchell on Dexter. He was also recently seen in Anand Tucker’s Leap Year, with Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Pinto got her break in Slumdog Millionaire and will be been seen in Miral with Willem Dafoe, Tarsem Singh’s Immortals and American Empire.
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I'm sorry, but primatologists are never this hot.
This is really getting somewhere. Lithgow can do no wrong in my book. Surely they can improve upon Burton's "excursion". The Apes deserve better.
I miss the good old days when the worst Apes movie was Battle for the Planet of the Apes…
So is IGN stealing CHUD's headlines these days, or is it the other way around. Both this title and Devin's Damon article are identical to what's on IGN's iPhone app.
Sounds a bit like Michael Crichton's "Next."
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