Follow the story of Noa, a young ape, as he discovers the truth about Caesar's teachings and the world around him. His actions will shape the future for both apes and humans.
Summary Caesar 's legacy continues in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is set hundreds of years later and follows a new hero, Noa . The young ape is captured, along with one of the few surviving humans, by Proximus Caesar . A leader in his own right Proximus Caesar follows his interpretation of Caesar 's teachings and admires the advancements in technology humanity made so long ago.
Wes Ball: The studio came and asked, "What would you do with the next Planet of the Apes movie?" Which by the way, when this movie comes out, will be just shy of five years ago. So it's been that long now. We survived a regime change at the studio. We survived the pandemic. Ball remained tight-lipped on the specific timeline of how many years this takes place after Caesar's death. However, the larger time jump, of hundreds of years, was an important part of what got him excited to make this movie.
Ball discussed the impressive technological advancements that have lent themselves to an even stronger visual impact on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. He used older cameras to capture a look and feel similar to movies from the 70s, eliciting similar warm tones to the original Planet of the Apes while also working with WETA to employ some of the most advanced motion capture CG work he's ever seen.
I think people will talk about it from a geeky visual effects standpoint because they're doing things they just haven't done before. Just the simulation data, the cache files that they render for this stuff, it's 10 to 11 petabytes of material. That's more than the weight of water. Wes Ball: That is really ultimately, I think, what the core concept of these movies is. What makes them tick. It is that kind of relationship between apes and humans. So we are no different, we are very much about that story. It's an interesting thing that the previous set of movies really began in the human world, and it was about this ape who came into it.
The Planet of the Apes franchise began in 1968 and has only grown in the decades since. While this may seem daunting to new fans, Ball reassures them that this is the perfect point to jump into the story. However, he also suggests watching the Caesar trilogy and the original Planet of the Apes, because if you have seen those four movies, there will be a pay-off, likely both in the story and through Easter eggs, for fans of the franchise as a whole.
Wes Ball: You get to see how it came to be. That to me was a really interesting thing. I think we talked about this before, but if the last two movies were the apes in the Stone Age, we're now entering the apes' Bronze Age where they're taking on cultures, developing rites of passage, legacy, legends are building, and things are being written down. Truths are being set in stone and new civilizations are being born.
You could maybe make another three after these three. You could do a lot, there's a lot of story to mine there. There's a lot of time to mine there. Go all the way up to the point where an ape, it looks up and sees a spaceship crashing down. Boom, cut to black. It goes back to '68, and you start all over again. That would be the way to go. I think in my mind.
So the best thing to do is to give it a fresh face and start kind of a new, and our story embraces that idea. It's about rediscovering, unearthing, kind of what came before. And so just to follow the same character, it just would not yield as much, at least stuff for me personally, to get excited. I'd certainly love to watch that movie. I just don't think I would've made that movie.
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