July start for Apes prequel

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Rupert Wyatt ("The Escapist") will helm "Planet of the Apes : Caesar", the long-gestating "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" remake, for Fox.

According to Production Weekly, it'll be monkey business from July, when the flick begins it's shoot at Mammoth Studios in Burnaby, BC.

The film, a prequel to Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes", has been in the works for a couple of years now - with most of the town's major directors, including Robert Rodriguez and Kathryn Bigelow, passing on the project.