Amph Planet of the Apes reboot series: Next up Kingdom otPotA

Sirkis just can't get the credit he deserves, can he?

 

During the "Dawn" maybe Franco is hiding out with his friends Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson.

 

Great question, and one that I had as well. Are the Apes we see in Dawn the only intelligent Apes on the planet, or are there others?! In Rise, Caesar (and his mother) were the first intelligent Apes since his mother was injected with the Anti-Alzheimer's substance while she was pregnant with him. Later in Rise, Caesar made the other Apes in his simian compound intelligent by exposing them to this same substance (that he took from the lab). These Apes all escaped from the compound, and made their way into the forest across the Golden Gate Bridge, where they formed a community - as we saw in Dawn.

They have never said either way whether the virus that has taken out humans also made Apes intelligent; note that it wasn't the virus that made the Apes initially intelligent, it was the Anti-alzheimer's substance. Somehow, this substance/cure that benefited Apes also proved fatal to many humans.

 

^ I'll be interested in the answer to that question too.

I saw the movie on Saturday morning, and kind of disappointed there wasn't a larger crowd in the movie theater; just about 20 or so, but it was a 10am showing.

Anyway, I thought the movie was MOST EXCELLENT!!!

Best CGI and human interaction since Jurassic Park. I mean, it was seamless.

Excellent characters, both good guys and villains. Wonderful story telling that provided heart felt moments before the be action sequences.

For me, what also made this movie great that is was set in San Francisco. The Human HQ is actually my former office building, One Market Plaza on the corner of Market and Spear. The background sets were pretty accurate for the most part in terms of layout of the buildings around that area.

Probably the best movie of the summer.

 

Here's the link to an article where Reeves discussing linking the current films to the 1968 film. Like I said, I don't agree with this idea since I think it limits the film-makers; why not do a pure re-boot?! In any case, I hope that they don't make the future world in these new movies too much like what we saw in the 1968 film - I at least hope that the make-up on the future Apes doesn't look as terrible as what we saw in that film....

http://www.wfmz.com/entertainment/matt-reeves-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/26886332

 

I took Reeves' comments to mean just the world and storyline of the 68 film, not linking to the film itself. Sounds like maybe another trilogy with the ending being the spacecraft returning to Earth.

 

I hope you're correct. IMHO, Reeves' comments were ambiguous. He obviously knows that the storyline of the original films (POTA - Battle) don't coincide with the current films, so, as you said, does he mean that these movies will end with the astronauts who took off on the Icarus in Rise (as mentioned in a background TV broadcast) landing on the POTA of the future, as in the '68 film?! And, seeing humans reduced to savages & the Apes dominating? I wouldn't mind seeing this, as long as everything looked different enough from the '68 film. The concern I have is the time-travel aspect - that concept is what made the original Apes films extremely confusing...

I also hope there are more than three films in the franchise; I think five films in all would be great. Apparently the third one is tentatively going to be called Planet of the Apes. There are a lot of possibilities that they can explore in these films...i.e., the possibility of Apes in other parts of North America, on other continents, etc...

 

Awesome. That answered a lot of my questions. Thank you for posting it.

My take on his comments is that these films aren't trying to tie in to the '68 film directly, but more to the events that take place in it (astronauts return to a future Earth where apes have become the dominant species). That's actually a huge difference.

Oh, boy I hope not. I don't want this to turn into a Friday the 13th situation.

 

Yes, I hope you're correct. If the astronauts just land on a future Earth where Apes (who shouldn't look like the Apes in the original '68 film, i.e. they probably should look somewhat evolved, but not like people in Ape costumes) are riding around on horseback and humans are savages, that would be fine with me. If they plan to go this route, the final scenes in the new franchise should be the astronauts being shocked to find this, and then have that be the end of the film.

What I definitely don't want to see in these new films is an astronaut named Taylor seeing a destroyed Statue of Liberty and saying "You da&# fools!" - first of all, there is no n. war in these new films (Rise or Dawn), so there would be no destroyed Statue of Liberty (maybe an overgrown one, however). Second, this was an iconic scene in the original film & these new films should stand on their own, and shouldn't try to copy the original films.

It's also worth noting that while Rise paid more homage to the original POTA films (the line by the animal keeper in the compound, etc.), in Dawn we saw fewer homages to the original films - with the exception of the "Ape shall not kill Ape" sentence written on the rock wall in the Ape community...

 

Yeah, the whole virus thing pretty much takes the Statue of Liberty ending off of the table... though I believe the nuclear option is still a possibility for a desperate humanity in future films. There are still nukes all over the world, and I could see one of the films ending with the humans (or a human) somehow launching them to, in effect, wipe the slate clean.

But regardless, the state of the world is humanity's fault, so that basic revelation is still waiting there for our returning astronauts.

 

Saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for a second time last week; If anything, I liked the film better the second time around; things went by quite fast during the first viewing, and I was able to notice more details this time.

In any case, superb film, and during this second viewing I actually felt less sympathy for the humans.

 

The next one is called War Of The Planet Of The Apes.

 

Cool name.

 

DotPotA was one of my favorite films of last year, so hopefully this turn out to be great.

 

I hope so too

 

Well, it took me a year to get to this, but I recently finally read last year's official "prequel" novel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm (Greg Keyes, 2014). This chronologically takes place during the first several weeks directly after the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, when the virus starts killing humans & the Apes have made their way into the forest outside San Francisco.

SPOILERS BELOW:

I didn't have extremely high hopes before reading the novel, but after reading this was glad I did - via flashbacks, this novel explained Koba's extreme hatred of humans (he had been tortured by them, for one thing), as well as the beginnings of the chaos in S.F. that resulted after the virus starts taking out humans.

It was also interesting to see that the company which was doing the testing on the Apes re: the Alzheimer's cure (as seen in Rise) actually tries to destroy all/most of the Apes - because they mistakenly think that the Apes are causing the spread of the virus. Prior to reading this book, I thought that after the Apes escaped into the forest at the end of Rise, that was the end of their dealings with the humans - until 10 years later, as seen in Dawn.

In any case, this is a good novel to read if you're a fan of these latest two Apes films, though it's definitely more of a supplement to the movies than a good stand-alone novel.

 

Woody Harrelson To Play 'War of the Planet of the Apes' Villain




Transcript of the video for the YouTube impaired:

 

They need to change the title to Woody v. Apes.

 

Some people might be confused and might think of this Woody.

 

Good point. And "Woody From Cheers v. Those Damned, Dirty Apes" just doesn't have the same moxie.

 

Teaser for War for the Planet of the Apes from NYCC.

'War for the Planet of the Apes' Releases Synopsis Before New York Comic-Con

 

I love watching a movie teaser that conveys exactly the same amount of information as not watching it.

 

Are we going to finally have a worthy third film that wraps up a trilogy nicely?

 

Let me guess how it ends. With the Apes winning in every hemisphere somebody pushes "the button".