'Rise from the Planet from the Apes' Almost Were built with a Really Sad Ending

Within the last nine days, only three new new releases handled to top this area office: 'The Help,' 'Contagion' and 'Rise from the Planet from the Apes.' ('The Lion King 3D' would be a reissue this weekend's champion 'Dolphin Tale' is at week two.) From the three, 'Apes' was the greatest hit with audiences, grossing an believed $174 million locally and the other $234 million overseas. With returns like this it appears possible Last Century Fox may wish to bring the franchise back for an additional chapter -- and that's why a minumum of one major character did not really die at film's conclusion. Spoilers, clearly. In the Visual Effects Society Production Summit in Beverly Hillsides on Sunday, Fox postproduction leader Ted Gagliano says director Rupert Wyatt and also the 'Apes' filmmaking team thought James Franco's lead character should perish in the finish of 'Rise.' Actually, the ending managed to get so far as This summer 4 before reshoots were done. "We shot for 3 hrs and [Franco] was back on the flight,Inch Gagliano stated. The film opened up 30 days later using the new conclusion. Browse the theatrical ending of 'Rise from the Planet from the Apes' online on this link The Playlist has pages of the early draft featuring Franco's character's dying. [via THR]