Amanda Silver

But then the pandemic hit and stalled everything.

The writers, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, eventually left to work on the Avatar sequels, and then the Warner Media Discovery corporate merger happened, which we all know resulted in a bloodbath of cancellations, and it buried the project completely under a mountain of spreadsheets and tax write-offs.

The corporate machinations are tragic, but even if it had survived the merger, there is a profound narrative danger in adapting Circe.

It's the trap of reverence.

dealing with.

2011, the initial offering of the new Planet of the Apes series directed by Rupert Wyatt and written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.

So after the fiasco that was Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, I was so happy to learn that 21st Century Fox was going to give POTA another kick at the can.

I'd recently become a big fan of James Franco and after he appeared in the miniseries 11, 22, 63.