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"War for the Planet of the Apes" sees
motion-capture performance specialist Andy Serkis return in his
role as Caesar, leader of a super-intelligent band of apes who
take on an army led by Woody Harrelson's ruthless colonel in a
post-apocalyptic setting.
Serkis said the conflict between apes and humans at the film's
core was a warning against supremacist ideologies.
"If you think your species is better, if you think your type of
people or your type of religion or anything that your set of
beliefs is better than someone else's, then that is the road to
ruin," he said.
Serkis's on-screen antagonist Harrelson, who has experience in
dystopian cinema from his role in the "Hunger Games" films, said
that he had been a fan of the renewed series before being asked
to appear in it.
"It was a privilege to be asked to do it. I don't think it's
that I'm drawn to that (dark sci-fi films), I'm just drawn -
some things make sense. Some things you can't say no to."
"War" follows on from "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", and
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", and is to be the final
instalment of this series, but not the end of the franchise
altogether, said the film's director and co-writer Matt Reeves.
The original "Planet of the Apes" spawned a five-film series
that ran from 1968 to 1973. The first film, an arresting science
fiction classic that starred Charlton Heston, won an Oscar for
its prosthetic make-up effects and was a critical and commercial
hit, but the subsequent movies struggled to replicate the
original's success.
(Writing by Mark Hanrahan in London; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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