War for the Planet of the Apes
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Short description
War for the Planet of the Apes follows Caesar, the leader of a genetically modified ape community, who finds himself drawn into a conflict he does not want with a human army commanded by a ruthless officer known as the Colonel. After the apes suffer heavy losses, Caesar struggles with his darker instincts and sets out to avenge his kind, a path that leads him toward a confrontation with the Colonel that will shape the future of both species.
Andy Serkis returns as Caesar, with Woody Harrelson as the Colonel, Karin Konoval as Maurice, Terry Notary as Rocket, Steve Zahn as Bad Ape and Amiah Miller as Nova. Matt Reeves directs from a screenplay he wrote with Mark Bomback, and the film is produced by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Peter Chernin. It is the third entry in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series and the second directed by Reeves, following Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and preceding The Batman in 2022.
Released in 2017, the film runs 140 minutes and was made for about 150 million dollars, going on to earn roughly 491 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 7.4 rating from around 325,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7.2 from just under 10,000 votes. A critics' rating of 8.2 from 363 reviews is notably higher than the audience scores on both platforms, indicating stronger approval among reviewers than among general viewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- Real horses and stunt performers were used in almost all scenes involving horses, and only one scene with Caesar on a horse was the product of computer technology.
- Post-production took over a year, as the filmmakers strived to make the monkeys – and especially their facial expressions – as realistic as possible.
- Actors Andy Serkis (Caesar) and Toby Kebbell (Koba) have both played King Kong. Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" (2005), where, in addition to King Kong himself, he also played the small role of cook Lumpy, and Toby Kebbell in "Kong: Skull Island" (2017), where, in addition to King Kong himself, he also played the small role of Major Jack Chapman. Interestingly, the supporting characters in both films die midway through from the hands of the monsters on the island, but not from King Kong.
- According to director Matt Reeves, the group of rebels is called “Alpha and Omega.” This is a reference to the cobalt bomb that the mutant humans worshiped in Ted Post's film "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970). Even the symbol on their helmets and flag is a copy of the symbol on the bomb that concludes the second film in the franchise.
- Director Matt Reeves noted that the apes in Rupert Wyatt's science fiction films "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (2011) and Matt Reeves' own "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014) walk without clothes. In the original film of the franchise, it was customary for apes to walk clothed, although, incidentally, the character played by Steve Zahn also wears clothes. Like Terry Notary's character, he is not covered in fur, but if in Notary's case this is likely the result of alopecia or baldness, then in Zahn's character the fur fell out due to old age.
- Andy Serkis, Terry Notary, and Karin Konoval are the only actors who appeared in all the films of the "Planet of the Apes" trilogy. Serkis played Caesar, the leader of all the apes, while Notary and Konoval played Rocket and Maurice, Caesar's close associates.
- The ninth film in the "Planet of the Apes" franchise.
- The young monkeys in the corresponding scenes were played by the filmmakers' children. Terry Notary specifically trained his children to move like monkeys, on all fours.
- The girl Nova was named after a character played by Linda Harrison in the first two films of the franchise (1968 and 1970). The same actress also appeared in a cameo role in Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" (2001).
- Unlike her colleagues Andy Serkis and Terry Notary, 55-year-old Canadian actress Karin Konoval had never performed stunt work on set before joining the franchise, and to prepare for the role of orangutan Maurice, she spent a lot of time with primates at the zoo, as well as learning their movements and habits, while wearing heavy weights on each arm to look more realistic on screen.
- In the first film of the franchise in 1967, Taylor finds a talking doll at an archaeological dig site and presents it to the apes as proof that humans once knew how to speak. In this film, the doll lacks any facial features (suggesting an inability to speak) and serves as a carrier for a virus that causes muteness.
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