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action-adventure is the tenth "Planet of the Apes" movie and
follows the reboot trilogy, which debuted in 2011 with "Rise of
the Planet of the Apes" and includes the 2014 film "Dawn of the
Planet of the Apes" and 2017's "War for the Planet of the Apes".
"It's certainly big shoes to fill," Ball, known for the "Maze
Runner" movies, said at the new film's London launch on
Thursday.
"We had to really decide if we had something good here. And I
think we do. We have a reason to exist, we're not just a part
four, we're kind of our own thing. We try to honour what came
before, with the previous trilogy, but also the original 1968
movie," he said.
"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is set several generations
after the events of the 2017 film and centres on a young and
naive but brave ape Noa (Owen Teague). When his peaceful
eagle-raising clan is attacked and his family taken away, Noa
sets off to find them. Encounters with an elderly orangutan and
the first human he has met, Nova/Mae (Freya Allan), along the
way teach Noa difficult truths about the past and bear
consequences on his, and the planet's future.
"It's unique characters this time, it's younger characters.
There's a kind of a youthful spirit. It's a bit more of an
adventure. It's a road movie as we kind of travel across this
landscape that's slowly disappearing, the ruins of our world,”
said Ball.
Like its predecessors, "Kingdom" uses motion-capture technology
to bring the non-human characters to life. The cast spent six
weeks in "ape school", studying under movement coach Alain
Gauthier, a former Cirque du Soleil performer and project
director.
Actor Andy Serkis, who played lead chimpanzee Caesar in the
previous three films, was hired as a special consultant to help
the actors approach their characters.
"I'm very proud to, in a tiny way, be associated with its
journey and sort of passing on the baton to the next generation
and watching them create such an incredible movie," Serkis, 60,
said.
The global cinematic rollout for "Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes" begins on May 8.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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