Director
Matt Reeves jumped the gun while talking to Thompson on Hollywood about the
upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke,
Keri Russell, Gary Oldman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirk Acevedo, Toby Kebbell,
Enrique Murciano and Judy Greer.
“Because
we’re shooting, we’re not showing very much. We are not going to be coming
with tons of footage. The cast will be there, we’ll try to give a taste of
limited little bits. But not ape shots, we’re not going to do that, you’re
limited in what you can show. That’s another story that takes months and months.”
Reeves
than talked about the changes made to the original script and the emotional conection
between James Franco character in the first film and Caesar played by Serkis;
“Watching
“Rise” it was miraculous how connected we are emotionally to him. I’ve never
seen it at that level. We’re wrapped up in his character. I wanted to carry
that forward. When I rewatched “Rise” in the interim, I had a son, and
something in watching Caesar come into being in that movie reminded me of my
son. When you watch you identify with Caesar. I couldn’t believe I had that
level of emotional involvement with a CG character. He is torn away from
his family and grows up with another family, he’s taken away from them and imprisoned
in the ape habitat. There’s no dialogue except sign language and it’s
fascinating and emotionally involving. It felt like an uncanny connection to
Andy’s perspective. I wanted to make sure that the emotional life of
Caesar was the way the story carried forward. You have to make Caesar’s movie,
you have to think about what matters to him the most … When I got involved
the story initially took place further down the line, the apes had evolved
fast. What excited me was the idea of going back to finding a way to get on the
path, I did not want to jump so far ahead. I restarted the first movie
that put you in the heart of the apes, knowing that in the canon, the ’68 movie
I saw as a kid, you know what that world is about. That was the beginning. So
this leads to the original film. How does that work? That is where it’s going.
I did not want to go too far and miss how it developed.”
Reeves
than continued to talk about the film:
“Caesar
talks at the end of the movie, he has some level of speech. I wanted to make
sure we’re continuing to go along the path of evolution without missing it, it
was so delicious to watch in the first movie. It’s not like now they are
talking in verse. Hopefully the movie is emotional and thrilling as you watch
the apes come into being … The ape civilization is in the woods, between Vancouver
and New Orleans, the world after what happens with the simian virus flu. The
two main locales are San Francisco and the Muir Woods where the ape
civilization is born. We’ll be doing a little shooting in San Francisco as
well. A lot of the Louisiana shooting was to build huge wood sets
outside in the woods to add realism, enormous exterior streets.
We’re shooting in the rain, in the wind, all on location out in the open in the
elements.”
The
Scale:
“The
crazy thing is the giant scale of this film, which is enormous for any
movie, so much bigger. The only way it works is from an emotional intimate
point-of-view. It has all the things that drive me to do something, an
emotional core, as Andy, Rupert and Weta did on “Rise”: How do you become an
ape? How emotional it is, the emotional intimacy. It’s a huge
adjustment. It’s not only on a scale for me that is obviously larger than
anything I’ve done, but huge for any film in this particular way: this is the
first movie at this level to do native 3-D on an enormous canvas and mo-cap
that is 95 % shot on location. The mo-cap shooting on the first movie was done
really on the stage. It’s enormous do this in a naturalistic space. And it’s an
exciting learning curve.”
And
Andy Serkis:
“Andy
is a great actor, it comes down to that. The first thing I did, I wanted the
VFX people to take me through all the footage on the last movie before and
after of Andy so I could understand what he was doing. I was so impressed, we
all know he’s a genius. I wanted to get under the hood, and they showed some
minutes in scenes with even more going on, I’m hoping to pull those things
out.”
Dawn
of the Planet of the Apes opens on July 18, 2014.
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