Studio also waging an Oscar campaign for Serkis Deadline says that director Rupert Wyatt’s original deal came with a sequel option, so he’s locked, as are screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who are producing with Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark. James Franco and Freida Pinto are not officially on board yet. The site has also learned that Fox will wage an Oscar campaign for Serkis’s performance in “Apes.” Source: Deadline Show Comments |