Rise of the Planet of the Apes opens this Friday, but it’s already received big buzz. The one thing that most people praise is the impressive work Weta Digital did for the movie, thanks to the contributions of Andy Serkis. Here is a 4-minute long behind-the-scenes featurette of how WETA used innovative motion capture technology to create the apes in the film, including lots of footage, interviews and more.
“This film is not possible without the work of Andy Serkis.”
Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes is set in contemporary San Francisco and follows a young scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes. Franco has been testing his Alzheimer cure on apes, but one of them, named Caesar, starts to evolve rapidly, so he takes him home to live with him and protect him from the cruel doctors, thus starting the inevitable ape revolution. James Franco stars, along with Andy Serkis providing motion capture as Caesar and Weta doing CGI; plus Freida Pinto, Brian Cox, John Lithgow and Tom Felton. Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters onAugust 5th later this week.
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