Carver: Who the hell else am I going to blame?Ĭaesar: Let them do their human work. Malcolm: Holy shit.Įllie: You can't honestly blame the apes. Ellie: Malcolm, what are you doing? Alexander: Dad? Ellie: Malcolm. Caesar: But we are family.Īlexander: Dad. Still think about them? Caesar: Humans? Sometimes. Caesar: Makes me think how far we've come, Maurice. Protect yourself.ĭialogue Maurice: Another son. Koba said we're too loyal to your father.They are animals! We will push them back! Drive them down! And they will not get through these doors! We are survivors! Now, they may have got their hands on some of our guns.Humans! You ape prisoner now! You will know life in cage! More humans out there! Go! Find them!.Humans kill Caesar! Burn ape home! Go! Get them! Apes must attack human city! Fight back! Come! Fight for Caesar!.Humans attack your sons! You let them stay?! Put apes in danger! Caesar love humans more than apes! More than your sons!.Who knows what humans are really doing up there? APE HOME! HUMAN HOME! Do not come back.APES.DO NOT.WANT WAR, BUT WILL FIGHT.IF WE MUST!.If we go to war, we could lose all we've built.They missed out and went on to film the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which also starred Andy Serkis. Sir Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh once pitched to revive the Planet of the Apes franchise in the early 90s. LOWDOWN: Who: Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis What: War for the Planet of the Apes When: In cinemas next Thursday In War we have made him an ape Moses so that apes in the future would look back and say, 'Without him we wouldn't be here'." He's been through a very dramatic journey, from being a no-one and a revolutionary in Rise, a leader in difficult times in Dawn, ultimately becoming a seminal figure in ape history.
Says Reeves, "Andy Serkis' performance is what draws you in, and the three films are quite different in Caesar's trajectory. The franchise most definitely sits on the shoulders of Serkis' Ceasar, an ape Moses and mythical leader of biblical proportions.
The cast also includes Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Gabriel Chavarria, and Amiah Miller, who plays a human child who becomes the lynchpin between the apes and mankind. Your body temperature drops and you're struggling to keep warm." We were high up in the mountains and although we had lots of layers underneath, it's very cold, and it was quite tough. Say Serkis, "The night shoots at 4am were really challenging. The film was shot in Vancouver and in the Kananaskis Range in the Canadian Rockies. War for the Planet of the Apes is being called the starkest film in the popular reboot. Straight-faced, he continues, "But the worst experience I had was with a teacher named Mrs Schmidt in my sixth grade year. He was also charged with resisting arrest after running from the police, but has avoided jail time by paying a fine).
"The ones I had the hardest time with were some police in Ohio, a judge in Massachusetts, and lots of people from the jurisprudence system." (Harrelson was arrested in Ohio, in 1982, for disorderly conduct after he was found dancing in the middle of the street. Harrelson, who has endured a tussle or two with authority figures, channelled some of his real-life experiences. Wesley McCullough, "The Colonel", a wannabe dictator and the apes' nemesis, obsessed with eliminating Caesar and his tribe, enforcing humanity as the dominant species. Woody Harrelson plays against type as the ruthless Colonel J. "The more I see of what's going on in the world and when I think about Caesar's journey, we are on the brink of becoming a species that is unable to empathise with ongoing situations and events that are so bleak." If you are moved by the story, you can understand that it's all about empathy."
"The danger of the world we live in, I think, is this inability for us to see each other as one. The parallels between our current political climate of escalating racism and xenophobia and Reeves' script are evident. Woody Harrelson stars in War for the Planet of the Apes.