History Quotes / InNameOnly

->"[Fox president] Tom Rothman called and said, 'Look, would you like to do ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 Planet of the Apes]]''?' And I said, 'No.' And then he called back and said, 'Well, you could really do whatever you wanted.' [...]" Aside from a projected release date – the summer of 2001 – there were, he said, "zero parameters. That was the fun thing about it. 'Don't read any of the earlier scripts. Don't feel limited by the [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 previous series]]. Just follow your imagination.' It was a completely blank slate." At one point, Broyles called Rothman, demonstrating the extent of his departure from previous versions with a single question: "Does it have to be apes?" He was only half joking.

->"[Fox president] Tom Rothman called and said, 'Look, would you like to do ''[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 Planet of the Apes]]''?' And I said, 'No.' And then he called back and said, 'Well, you could really do whatever you wanted.' [...]" Aside from a projected release date – the summer of 2001 – there were, he said, "zero parameters. That was the fun thing about it. 'Don't read any of the earlier scripts. Don't feel limited by the previous series. Just follow your imagination.' It was a completely blank slate." At one point, Broyles called Rothman, demonstrating the extent of his departure from previous versions with a single question: "Does it have to be apes?"

->"[Fox president] Tom Rothman called and said, 'Look, would you like to do ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''?' And I said, 'No.' And then he called back and said, 'Well, you could really do whatever you wanted.' [...]" Aside from a projected release date – the summer of 2001 – there were, he said, "zero parameters. That was the fun thing about it. 'Don't read any of the earlier scripts. Don't feel limited by the previous series. Just follow your imagination.' It was a completely blank slate." At one point, Broyles called Rothman, demonstrating the extent of his departure from previous versions with a single question: "Does it have to be apes?"

->''"We didn't look at the game. We didn't talk about the game. We talked about the characters and the world. So I never felt limited by it being a game."''

->''"Blackbeard came from the book, and in the book, there is a daughter character, too. But Jack Sparrow is not in the book, nor is Barbossa. So I wouldn't call this an adaptation."''

->"[Fox president] Tom Rothman called and said, 'Look, would you like to do ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''?' And I said, 'No.' And then he called back and said, 'Well, you could really do whatever you wanted.' [...] Aside from a projected release date – the summer of 2001 – there were, he said, "zero parameters. That was the fun thing about it. 'Don't read any of the earlier scripts. Don't feel limited by the previous series. Just follow your imagination.' It was a completely blank slate." At one point, Broyles called Rothman, demonstrating the extent of his departure from previous versions with a single question: "Does it have to be apes?"

->A few rewrites later, very little of the original screenplay remained. Today, ''[[Film/RobinHood2010 Nottingham]]'' is a cautionary tale for every young, aspiring screenwriter out there. It doesn't matter what you write: [[Creator/RidleyScott the director]] and [[Creator/RusselCrowe the star]] will decide what makes it onto the screen.

->A few rewrites later, very little of the original screenplay remained. Today, ''Nottingham'' is a cautionary tale for every young, aspiring screenwriter out there. It doesn't matter what you write: the director and the star will decide what makes it onto the screen.

->''"UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} came from [[Literature/OnStrangerTides the book]], and in the book, there is a daughter character, too. But Jack Sparrow is not in the book, nor is Barbossa. So I wouldn't call this an adaptation."''