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The Return of the Apes (Oliver Stone - Arnold Schwarzenegger 1993) - Unproduced Original Script

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The Return of the Apes (Oliver Stone - Arnold Schwarzenegger 1993) - Unproduced Original Script
The Return of the Apes (Oliver Stone - Arnold Schwarzenegger 1993) - Unproduced Original Script (From Joel Silver).

This script belonged to acclaimed producer Joel Silver.

Original script from the production of the proposed Oliver Stone directed film 'The Return of the Apes' (1993), and to star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

By December 1993, Oliver Stone had signed on as executive producer/co-writer of a proposed new Planet of the Apes movie produced by Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy. Stone's preference was for a story based on apes from an ancient civilization, with biblical connections. He explained in December 1993, "It has the discovery of cryogenically frozen Vedic Apes who hold the secret numeric codes to the Bible that foretold the end of civilizations. It deals with past versus the future. My concept is that there's a code inscribed in the Bible that predicts all historical events. The apes were there at the beginning and figured it all out.

Oliver Stone recruited Australian Terry Hayes to write the screenplay, having previously had hits with Dead Calm, Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. In March 1994, Stone secured the interest of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed on to play the lead with the condition that he had approval of director. Schwarzenegger anticipated a violent, gory interpretation of Stone's conspiracy-theory concept. Titled Return of the Apes, Hayes' screenplay begins in the near future where a plague is making humans extinct. Geneticist Will Robinson discovers the plague is a genetic time bomb embedded in the Stone Age. He time travels with a pregnant colleague named Billie Rae Diamond to a time when Palaeolithic humans were at war for the future of the planet with highly-evolved apes. Robinson and Diamond discover a young human girl named Aiv (pronounced Eve) to be the next step in evolution. They protect her from the virus, thus ensuring the survival of the human race 102,000 years later. Billie Rae gives birth to a baby boy (perhaps named Adam?).
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