Planet of the Apes is to get another remake, for sure this time.

There has been talk of a new Apes for some time but recent rumours suggested that the plan had been abandoned. New York Magazine says, however, that Twentieth Century Fox has not given up on rebooting the Simian tale and that, in fact, the studio is now more determined than ever to make the film.

Screenwriter Scott Frank (Minority Report, Get Shorty) has left the project, an origin story showing just how the apes became so smart — Frank’s script reportedly showed how genetic experiments on apes led to their evolutionary eclipse of humans. Frank was also supposed to direct. And the Post says Fox has hired another writer, Jamie Moss (Street Kings), to rework Frank’s version. Producer Scott Rudin has also exited.

The project has now been handed to producer Peter Chernin and is apparently high priority. The search for a director is underway.

Meanwhile, Scott Frank has apparently been hired to adapt the forthcoming young-adult novel, co-written by James Frey, called I Am Number Four.

The first Planet of the Apes, released in 1968, was directed by Franklin J. Shaffner and starred Charlton Heston. The 2001 remake by Tim Burton starred Mark Wahlberg.