PLANET OF THE APES prequel: good news and bad news
PLANET OF THE APES prequel: good news and bad news
May 07
So the Planet Of The Apes prequel / reboot I mentioned earlier is gearing up to shoot in July (2010), and has recently undergone a change of name: Caesar is out, Rise Of The Apes is in (even if that sounds like a documentary chronicling human evolution, not an action sci-fi, but whatever).
The good news is that it will be released sooner rather than later: 24th of June, 2011. That’s next year! Great.
The bad news is that the apes will be CGI. WETA Digital are accomplished professionals, with credits like The Lord Of The Rings and Avatar under their belts, but nothing beats the practicality of a good old-fashioned monkey-suit. Given WETA’s involvement with Gollum and the na’vi, should we bank on the non-human apes being mo-capped? Probably. As dreadful as Tim Burton’s remake was, though, you have to admit that the monkey suits were good. Damn good.
An updated synopsis has been unveiled, too: “man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.” I’m going to guess they mean intelligence in non-human apes, but I suppose you don’t need to clarify that for the average summer action audience.
Anyway, what I want to know is this: which idiot lets the super-smart chimp out of the lab to kickstart an army and subsequent “war for supremacy”? Wouldn’t you just keep him, you know, locked in the lab? Oh, right, summer action movie, I forgot.
