So far the only thing we know about the upcoming Dawn
of the Planet of the Apes is that it is set ten years after the events of the
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Now in a recent interview to MTV actor
Gary Oldman who plays Dreyfus in the film, drops some hints about his character
and the plot of the movie.
"He's the sort of designated leader if you will
of this community of those that were lucky enough to survive the simian flu,
the disease, and then the ensuing social uprising from it….So they're sort of
survivors, and he was a police officer, so he's more of the kind of elected
leader of this (group). And they need power and there's a power station and
some of my people go out to see if it's operational, if it's still out there,
and then they discover that there's a whole community of apes living there. We
believed they were all completely fire-bombed and wiped out…He's experienced a
great loss, personally, and there's only one answer for him and that's to wipe
them out. I see him as a sort of the hero of the piece."
Oldman also explains that director Matt Reeves wanted
to focus the story more on the human side of the equation before delving into
the Apes side.
"Matt Reeves was more interested in not just
keeping the franchise alive but he wanted to make it more of a human story, he
wanted to explore what had happened and keep it more focused to the human side
of it before the story becomes the 'Planet of the Apes' as we know it from the
first one, from the original."
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes stars Andy Serkis,
Jason Clarke, Keri Russell, Gary Oldman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirk Acevedo, Toby
Kebbell, Enrique Murciano and Judy Greer and opens in 3D on July 18th, 2014.
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