It’s the prequel that no one outside of 20th Century Fox seems to want. But that isn’t stopping Fox from ramping up “Rise of the Apes,” a prequel to the original “Planet of the Apes.”
Last week, James Franco signed on to play the lead role. Now he’s been joined by Freida Pinto, Don Cheadle and John Lithgow.
Pinto will play the film’s female lead, a primatologist, and Lithgow will play Franco’s father, whose Alzheimer’s disease inspires the scientist to start his experiment on apes to begin with.
Production on the film is set to begin later this year.
