Intressanta fakta om den där planeten med apor

The Age fick sig ett snack med Richard Zanuck, en av de viktigaste personerna bakom den nya "Planet of the Apes". Här är ett par intressanta klipp från den intervjun.




"He left the studio in 1956, but when Fox's fortunes began to decline, the elder Zanuck returned to the company in 1962, assuming the position of chairman of the board. One of the first things he did was hire Richard as head of production. And the hits started coming.
Richard left the studio in 1973 but remains extremely active as a independent film maker. His latest effort is a remake of the original Planet of the Apes. Zanuck, however, doesn't think the term "remake" applies here.




"We're not remaking it; we are re-envisioning it. Mark Wahlberg is not playing Charlton Heston's character. He's playing a totally new created part in this upside down world of ape and human."




Zanuck continues to use the same approach to picking a film project that was used by him and his father during those days at 20th Century Fox.




"We'd go on gut reaction," Zanuck said. "We didn't do any market research. We had a very small production team. We didn't have all these development people they have today to cloud things up. Whatever stories or scripts we bought, we developed 99 per cent of them and made them into movies. I'd say 90 per cent of properties bought today never make it to the screen."