yeah, they are they parents. they put him in a circus with Ricardo Montalban to keep him from being killed. actually, the baby ape's name was Milo, Montalban's character renamed him Caesar.
First look at Caesar from Rise of the Planet of the Apes
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Oh, I remember his parents at the end of the previous film being threatened on the roof, father died and mother ends up giving birth to the ape that Ricardo Montalban raises in the circus, I just didn't remember they were still Cornelius and Zira, that far into the Series. Amongst the Movies and the short lived series (only saw about 5 minutes of it one day), Roddy McDowell played 3 (or 4?) parts, didn't he?
Roddy Mcdowell did all five movies
actually, he didn't play Cornelius in 'Beneath'. though he was technically present in the film in the reused footage from the first film.
"Does it work?"
"Like we predicted, with one exception..."
This looks awesome.
IIRC, Caesar chose his own name from a dictionary.
Yeah, Roddy played Cornelius in two movies, Caesar in two movies, and Galen in the tv series.
They seem to have tested their new experimental brain-enhancement drug on about 400 very strong apes. What could possibly go wrong?
Worked just fine for this POTA fan.
It isn't.
As did Michael Wilson.
The rise of the apes in the original continuity (term used loosely) didn't make a damn bit of sense. I'm all for rewriting it.
This is the first time a visual effects company has made Avatar.
I have no problem with that, I want to see the apes running amok! I hope that piece of preproduction art with the riot cops trying to contain the apes makes it into the film!
Though, I'm not so wild about the shot that looks like a gorilla jumping from a bridge onto a helicopter.
Time for a new computer monitor.
"Like we predicted, with one exception..."
This looks awesome.
IIRC, Caesar chose his own name from a dictionary.
Yeah, Roddy played Cornelius in two movies, Caesar in two movies, and Galen in the tv series.
They seem to have tested their new experimental brain-enhancement drug on about 400 very strong apes. What could possibly go wrong?
Worked just fine for this POTA fan.
It isn't.
As did Michael Wilson.
The rise of the apes in the original continuity (term used loosely) didn't make a damn bit of sense. I'm all for rewriting it.
That's the first time I've ever seen a visual effects company get plugged in the trailer.
This is the first time a visual effects company has made Avatar.
I have no problem with that, I want to see the apes running amok! I hope that piece of preproduction art with the riot cops trying to contain the apes makes it into the film!
Though, I'm not so wild about the shot that looks like a gorilla jumping from a bridge onto a helicopter.
Time for a new computer monitor.
"Does it work?"
"Like we predicted, with one exception..."
This looks awesome.
"Their brains weren't large enough to harvest sufficient amounts of the protein complex. So we violated the Harvard Compact. Jim and I used gene therapies to increase their brain mass. A larger brain means more protein. As a side effect the sharks got smarter."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/quotes?qt=qt0408638
I recall an anthropologist or zoologist on the telly saying that chimps can't develop larger brains until their jaw mechanism evolves away from going across the top of their skull. This particular bit of evolution in humans paved the way for the cranium to enlarge.
This is the first time a visual effects company has made Avatar.
Damn straight.
As you said, McDowell played Cornelius in POTA and "Escape." David Watson played him in "Beneath."
I'm curious about this.
I LOVE the original '68 film. And contrary to popular opinion I actually didn't mind the second film, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. After that I didn't care so much. The TV series stank. The Tim Burton remake left me cold.
Now this one I'm curious and cautiously optimistic although I preferred their original title Rise Of The Apes. It was more succinct and less clunky. But of course in Hollywood they think we're all idiots so if they don't give us the clunky title then none of us will get it.
I LOVE the original '68 film. And contrary to popular opinion I actually didn't mind the second film, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. After that I didn't care so much. The TV series stank. The Tim Burton remake left me cold.
Now this one I'm curious and cautiously optimistic although I preferred their original title Rise Of The Apes. It was more succinct and less clunky. But of course in Hollywood they think we're all idiots so if they don't give us the clunky title then none of us will get it.
Now what would be really neat to add to this film early on before the apes attack is if we get a small snippet of a new deep space flight launching. Something going on in the backround on a monitor or something telling us Colonel Taylor and crew are setting off on their mission. Nothing blatent or overt just something mentioned quickly.
I know it wont happen, but it would be pretty cool for us old school ape fans.
I know it wont happen, but it would be pretty cool for us old school ape fans.
The first, third and fourth movies were the best. The last one was done on the cheap, and the second one - well, the best review I saw of it at the time was very short: "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes is beneath Planet Of The Apes."
Glad to see another fan of the later movies, and I agree entirely. Escape is a different pace of movie, and more light hearted, but I still thought it was a good movie, and Conquest i my favourite (because our Ape overlords finally conquer us, and Caesar is a perfectly acted character). I still enjoy Beneath and Battle, but they're definitely the weaker.
Funny story - I originally saw the movies from hiring the VHS videos from the video store. They didn't have Beneath, so I never saw that one until I got the DVD set. I had waited years to finally see that movie, and boy was I disappointed.
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They seem to have tested their new experimental brain-enhancement drug on about 400 very strong apes. What could possibly go wrong?
Apparently
Caesar finds out that his blood makes the other apes smarter. So he lets the other apes taste his blood.
Funny story - I originally saw the movies from hiring the VHS videos from the video store. They didn't have Beneath, so I never saw that one until I got the DVD set. I had waited years to finally see that movie, and boy was I disappointed.
I read David Gerrold's novelization of BATTLE, but it took me years to catch up with the actual movie. It only played for about a week in my hometown, so I missed it and had to wait for it to show up on tv.
(This was before cable and Blockbuster, kids.)
And, yeah, the novelization was better.
This kind of decision-making is evidence-based.
^ Clearly.
Yeah, the eyes were incredible. I can't get over how realistic this 'Caesar' looks. I am psyched for this movie.
Re-imagining/prequel to all of the previous movies, Timothy. Or maybe just prequel with a retconned origin.
Pretty sure it's supposed to be the "prime" timeline of the original movies, like what happened the first go around before the apes from Escape... went back in time.
