Ever wonder how those damn dirty apes took over the planet, enslaved humanity and blew up the Statue of Liberty? Turns out it was all James Franco’s fault.
In all seriousness, this origin story for one of the all-time classic sci-fi films looks breathtaking, thanks to visual effects from Weta. Plus, it has ape-acting expert Andy Serkis playing the lead ape, which can only be a good thing.
Officially looking forward to this launching on August. You?
Sam
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 2:26 PMDoes this mean we can forget about that crap version that Mark Wahlberg was in?
Mike-Brisbane
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 4:50 PMHopefully…
Steve
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 6:25 PMDoes not compute.
All the apes in the entire world put together: Wild + zoo + lab are a TINY number compared to the six billion+ humans on Earth, especially since we wiped the vast majority of them via deforestation.
Oh, and those six billion humans have machine guns, jets and nuclear weapons.
So unless there’s some plot element where the apes reproduce like Gremlins (keep away of water!) then no way can I possibly overlook this.
Sean
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 6:42 PMWow. A couple of hundred apes in one city took out 6 billion humans spread around the globe, because they got smarter. Now that’s what I call plausible!
Rich
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 6:51 PMI was at the cinema on Monday (watching Source Code) and this was one of the previews shown. The crowd at the cinema actually laughed at how ridiculous this looked…
matt
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 9:14 PM“In all seriousness” well, how serious can you really be when you are talking about a monkey revolution?
also, it was already done, in the five or six hundred squeals that followed the original.
oh God.. “Caesar!” its all coming back now!
Andrew
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 11:46 PMIt’s pretty impressive that Andy Serkis has managed to forge a name for himself as a motion capture actor.
Peter Martin
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 11:46 PMYes, because the handful of all the man sized apes in the world are more than a match for humanities combined armed forces. That’s the annoying thing about sequels such as this; the original was cool because you didn’t have to think about how it happened, it just did and you carry on with the film. It’s only when you actually think about it that you realise how incredibly silly this is…….I’ll probably still see it though
Wozza60
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 6:57 AMPass
olearymo
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:42 PMI was always implied that humanity destroyed the statue of liberty, as well as themselves. The apes rose in their absence.
Of course this was later altered.