Yeah, they should blow up Vulcan in this one.
CG Planet of the Apes remake announced
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I hope for a darker, gritter take with lots of 9/11 and war on terror references. Maybe the apes were made smart to fight the war on terror.
The action scenes should be shakey and confusing, if you can tell what's happening, then they failed.
The action scenes should be shakey and confusing, if you can tell what's happening, then they failed.
Maybe they can revive the idea of the apes having crude flying machines. In the original that was the initial plan.
Apes verses radiated humans on gyro copters for the finale.
Apes verses radiated humans on gyro copters for the finale.
Maybe this is a big deception and it's not really a reboot of the Apes franchise again, but just a sneaky way of tricking audiences into coming to see the new Uplift War franchise.
Indeed. Somehow, Kim Hunter is instantly recognizable in her ape makeup. Must be the eyes.
Apparently WETA studios is gonna do the FX
When you talk about seeing the actors, do you mean when it was originally released and these actors were recognized from their other works, or just the general principle of seeing the actors through the makeup? My experience with the Apes films came way after the fact, being born well after they originally released. To me, the story as a whole is what attracts me to them, esp Escape and Conquest.
How the apes are done really doesn't concern me. The FX weren't the problem with the later apes movies, and they weren't the problem with the Star Wars prequels.
Brin got a deal? Or is my leg sore for a reason?
Motion capture can be excellent if done right. You can't tell me Andy Serkis and Zoe Saldana didn't give it all they had in their roles.
The problem with make-up is that it's limited to the dimensions of a human body. At best, the characters will look like people in really good ape make-up. CGI characters don't have that limitation- the arms can be longer, the legs shorter, the hands and feet can appropriately shaped and fully articulate, etc.
I'd really like to see some believable super-intelligent apes in the next one. CGI is the way to go.
I'd really like to see some believable super-intelligent apes in the next one. CGI is the way to go.
I'm gonna guess stereoscopic 3-D. actors in green-screen suits acting in a real location like Jar Jar Binks being acted on the set of SWEP1 with the 1 actor in a greenscreen suit and the rest of the actors in wardrobe.
Or they could do all motion capture and create the entire world in CGI ala Avatar.
I can see a bit of a mix here.
If this is called Rise of the Apes, then wouldn't it be a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and not the original film? In that case, I can see how CGI could work, since it is supposed to be about real apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.) learning to band together and rise up against their human masters, and real apes just have different proportions than humans. It would be hard to pull off convincingly with men in monkey suits.
Oh, and I love this line from the article: "It's like Jon Peters, who spent a decade trying to work a giant spider into a film before finally getting one onscreen in "Wild Wild West." If Fox is lucky, maybe this film will turn out just as good as that one did." Wow, I didn't think anyone with half a brain would consider Wild Wild West to be a good film.
Oh, and I love this line from the article: "It's like Jon Peters, who spent a decade trying to work a giant spider into a film before finally getting one onscreen in "Wild Wild West." If Fox is lucky, maybe this film will turn out just as good as that one did." Wow, I didn't think anyone with half a brain would consider Wild Wild West to be a good film.
I think that's the idea, yes.
Indeed. It always bugged me that Conquest showed chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans already being human-shaped in the film's near-future setting, rather than having evolved into that form more gradually. (Although of course evolving that much in only 2000 years or so is almost as ridiculous as doing it in 20 years, biologically speaking, but it's a bit easier to suspend disbelief for.)
It would be good if the new movie portrayed great apes in a realistic-looking way. It would also be good if it portrayed their psychology correctly too. The original PotA got all three species completely wrong. It portrayed the chimps as the peaceful scholars, the gorillas as the warriors, and the orangs as the leaders of social and religious institutions, when in actuality chimps are the most violent great apes (or at least competitive with humans for that status), gorillas the gentlest (except when threatened), and orangs the least social.
Maybe I'm just dense, but that part sure sounded like sarcasm in the original to me.