Mark Bomback

All movies of any genre are influenced in some ways by the movies that came before them, war movies especially. Kong: Skull Island made no secret of its homages to Apocalypse Now and The Thin Red Line, and War for the Planet of the Apes is attempting a similarly ambitious undertaking. Filmmaker Matt Reeves recently listed all of the movies he’d taken noted on for his Apes film: At Comic Con he said he’d used Platoon, The Thin Red Line, and Apocalypse Now as touchstones, and today he’s listed a few more.

Mark Bomback, who has given us such screenplays as the action-heavy 'Live Free or Die Hard,' 'The Wolverine' and the upcoming 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' has taken a unexpected turn. The writer is now set to tackle the script for '50 Shades of Grey.'

There's been some serious momentum on 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' the sequel to last year's surprise hit 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' First, we learned that 'Cloverfield' director Matt Reeves will helm the sequel, and now the film's script will get a rewrite, courtesy of 'Wolverine' writer Mark Bomback.