- PLANET OF THE APES RISES AGAIN, AGAIN 2.
It looks like director Rupert Wyatt will not be moving full
steam ahead on Londongrad, which had been his next planned project. Warner
Bros. has now put the project on hold so that Wyatt can first tackle a sequel
to his previous film Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
According to Deadline, the studio put Londongrad on the fast
track for Wyatt to direct with hot-ticket Michael Fassbender set to star as the
former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died of polonium-210 poisoning in
2006. However, Wyatt will now be returning to the Apes franchise instead for
another go at Caesar and friends.
Nevertheless, producer Graham King (Hugo, The Departed)
claims that he will likely wait for Wyatt to make Londongrad, even at the
expense of Fassbender.
"[Rupert] came to us and Warners," King said in an
interview with The Playlist, "and said 'I love this script, and I'd love
to make this, but [Apes] is what I'm doing now.' And we were like, fine. He's a
great filmmaker, and I really hope I get to work with him."
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