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EXCLUSIVE: After helping relaunch Marvel’s Fantastic Four franchise pinch Fantastic Four: First Steps, head Matt Shakman and writer Josh Friedman are getting a changeable astatine different high-profile IP, arsenic sources show Deadline Shakman is group to nonstop an untitled Planet of nan Apes movie astatine 20th Century pinch Friedman penning nan script. Shakman will besides nutrient on pinch longtime Apes producers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.
Plot specifications are being kept nether wraps different than nan movie making a return to nan satellite wherever Apes are nan superior type ruling all. While not confirmed, sources show Deadline this will not beryllium a continuation of nan astir caller pic Kingdom of nan Planet of nan Apes, but a caller original communicative that Shakman and Friedman are developing. Friedman besides penned that book on pinch Silver and Jaffa.
Planet of nan Apes is 1 of 20th Century Studios’ astir celebrated and enduring franchises, amassing much than $1.7 cardinal in worldwide container office. Based connected a caller by Pierre Boulle, nan first movie successful nan bid was released by then-20th Century Fox successful 1968 and went connected to go 1 of nan year’s biggest hits, winning a typical Academy Award. It was followed by 4 theatrical sequels and 2 TV series. A remake, Planet of nan Apes, directed by Tim Burton, was released successful 2001, and nan 2011 reboot Rise of nan Planet of nan Apes was followed by 2 sequels, 2014’s Dawn of nan Planet of nan Apes and 2017’s War for nan Planet of nan Apes.
Kingdom of nan Planet of nan Apes was directed by Wes Ball and was good received by critics and audiences alike pinch nan movie bringing successful $397 cardinal astatine nan world box-office.
Shakman has go a instrumentality favourite astatine nan Mouse House earning an Emmy information for directing nan Marvel Studios bid WandaVision. His activity connected that show yet helped him onshore nan Fantastic Four directing occupation which bowed past summertime bringing successful $521 cardinal astatine nan world box-office.
Other caller activity includes helming pilots for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Consultant, and Welcome to Chippendales. Shakman also helmed nan aviator section for The Great starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult.
Up next he will helm nan aviator and finale for Wild Things starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield. Shakman is represented by Untitled Entertainment and CAA.
Besides Fantastic Four: First Steps, Friedman besides co-wrote nan world blockbusters Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash, and nan latest of nan Planet of the Apes franchise, Kingdom of nan Planet of the Apes, for 20th Century Studios. Friedman is represented by UTA.
