Hey folks, Harry here with still more from Rachel taken out of the Honolulu Star regarding Tim Burton's PLANET OF THE APES. Ya know... I've officially just gotten bonkers excited about this film and I don't know why. I guess it's this damn SLEEPY HOLLOW dvd which just ruled the earth. I mean... man... Burton... He is literally just the coolest cat in town. The pure glee with which his characters die in SLEEPY HOLLOW... it's wonderful.
Harry,
here's something else from yesterday's Honolulu Star:
Burton already has scouted the Big island, Lanai, Maui, and Kauai; Oahu is not being considered for the film, he said.
"The stage we're in right now with this film is to think and dream and look," he said. "Once you get going on a film you don't get a chance ever to sit and appreciate a place, even a toxic waste dump."
Burton also is considering other locations for "Planet" but declined to say where or what the budget will be because, "I'm not sure yet."
But he is sure that he's not taking on "Planet" to do just another remake of the franchise.
"It was a movie that had impact on me as a kid," he said. "It's like a fairy tale, a folk tale to me. I had a feeling that there is a way to do it differently, exploring thematically similar things but in a different way.
"I think it can be revisited and re-imagined to a whole new generation and to people like me who are interested in other aspects of what the film said."
Filming will begin sometime this year.
"But I have to say," Burton said glancing toward the star-filled sky. "This would be a perfect place to do it."
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--rachel
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