Hollywood hot stuff turned film student James Franco is going back to the movies for a prequel to the Planet of the Apes movies, according to Variety. Franco will star as a young scientist is Rise of the Apes which is a massive movies set for release in the summer of 2011.
Described as an origin story, “Apes” is set in present day San Francisco and deals with the aftermath of man’s experiments with genetic engineering that lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Franco will play a driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.
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