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Rupert Wyatt
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This 39-year-old Exeter-born director had already made a small splash with his prison-movie-with-a- Twilight-Zone -twist flick, The Escapist , but few were confident that a Planet Of The Apes prequel would do big bucks and wow the critics. But it’s done what even Tim Burton couldn’t do, which is kickstart a new beginning for a franchise which breathed its last 38 years ago. Wyatt made us agog again at CGI, with a stitch-perfect monkey army and in particular Andy Serkis and WETA’s photo-real Caesar.
It looks as though Fox want him so much for sequel duties that they’ve tempted him to back off from his cherished drama Londongrad about poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Good on them. This franchise is too precious now to be frittered away in the hands of hacks.
What should he do next: We’re already salivating at the idea of Wyatt going full tilt boogie on the war between apes and humans.
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