A War is Coming. Between Apes and Humans. Do you have what it takes to stand with Caesar? War For the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves and motion-capture star Andy Serkis announced the contest on tonight’s The Walking Dead. Simply submit a 30-second video of yourself doing your best ape to win a role. Click here to enter.
And something else begins… Tune in to @WalkingDead_AMC Sunday night for a special #WarForTheApes announcement… pic.twitter.com/4X2Yt3wP7g
— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) November 20, 2015
Do you have what it takes to stand with Caesar? #WarForTheApes https://t.co/6mmieUSS2a pic.twitter.com/fjmpwYxXeP
— ApesMovies (@ApesMovies) November 23, 2015
I WANT TO BE AN APE, @mattreevesLA! You must need slow fat silverbacks, too.
— DrewAtHitFix (@DrewAtHitFix) November 23, 2015
I’d like to be on planet of the apes get free trip to west coast but hunching over to imitate an ape walk… ouch https://t.co/2S18wT1qbT
— John Furr (@JohnFurrToronto) November 23, 2015
The new billion-dollar-plus Planet of the Apes franchise — starring motion-captured Andy Serkis as Caesar– started filming its third installment War for the Planet of the Apes in mid-October, with Woody Harrelson as the villain Colonel and Steve Zahn as a new ape. We first met Caesar as a genetically-enhanced baby chimp living in San Francisco with humans until he is captured and placed in a primate shelter where he leads an ape uprising in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Ten years later in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, talking chimpanzee Caesar has his own family and is the established leader of an Apes colony in a world where humanity has been virtually wiped out by a simian plague. An unexpected incursion by human survivors leads to civil war among the Apes with Caesar prevailing as King of Apes.
War for the Planet of the Apes is set some time later during a “bloody war” between Apes and Humans with Caesar as an “Ape Moses” of mythic status battling humans led by bad guy, the Colonel. Production built massive sets in studio, on Mount Seymour and in south Richmond.
Mount Seymour set (since dismantled).
War For the Planet of the Apes began filming in south Richmond this week on what is thought to be an Ape prison.
@yvrshoots Planet of The Apes pic.twitter.com/bbGHDYUTL0
— Maxxwell8 (@MW3GAMEUPDATES) November 21, 2015
The previous film in the rebooted franchise — Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — grossed US$700 million worldwide, and won two big Visual Effects Society awards for the visual effects behind lead ape Caesar and the movie itself. So there are high hopes for War for the Planet of the Apes, which is expected to film around B.C. until early March next year.
I think the previous apes movies are better than this movie. But still it is full of action and the apes in this movie are more rational than the ape is previous movies. The only difference is the story where the human was rendered powerless because of the deadly virus carried by the apes.