What has happened to the mighty drawing card of the anthropoid since we last saw him in Rise of the Planet of the Apes ? In our undivided audience with Apes star Andy Serkis , the man behind the primate reveals all the details behind Caesar ’s new cosmos order — plus more info on his next feature article Jungle Book !
io9 : We experience the footage from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and it blew us forth . In it , the ape were using peter , and I see one ape with a flower pate . It seems like Caesar ’s mass are starting their own polish — but is it based on the caparison of humanity , or are you endeavor to build a separate ape civilization ?
Andy Serkis : That ’s a good question . Obviously this is 10 year on [ from upgrade of the Planet of the Apes ] and Caesar take with him a desire to create a new beau monde , an egalitarian society , which is to make for all of the Apes together , the Orangutans , the Chimpanzees and the Gorillas and so on . So what he had to do is find a commonality , a plebeian language . Throughout the course of study of the movie you will see them put across . They transmit using sign language , because obviously he has an enhanced intelligence from the drug that he inherit . He starts to use human terminology because he was bring up with human beings . He ’s carried with him certain dogma of belief that meant something to him from his kinship with human beings . So he ’s not completely excluded the good of humanity , I like to think .

With that is a signified of equalitarianism , and being a natural loss leader without having to rule with an iron clenched fist . Being empathetic . Caesar is a very empathetic fictional character and stress to see everyone ’s point of prospect . He is very pro - aper , at the beginning of the movie , and for the first part of the movie really we remember that humans have of disappeared . The sighting have become less and less over the last 10 years , since the end of the last motion-picture show . They [ the Apes ] are live up in Muir Woods and the lights in San Francisco are sort of dimming and dim , and finally they go away . So for all intents and use they think they are alone , and then all of a sudden into their lives get along come human being , and it shakes him up . He is then draw into a very difficult situation , where he ’s trying to carry off what eventually could be a human invasion And a dispute between Apes and Humans . Of course , he is terrible mangled because of that .
But the individual that you are referring to with the the prime crown is , in fact , Caesar ’s married woman Cornelia , who is play by Judy Greer . What you were seeing is the solemnisation of the parturition of their baby child . We start the movie with a material land of the nation , peaceful culture that ’s taken years to bring together .
I know in Battle for the Planet of the imitator when Caesar starts a society where Apes and Human are live together , there are linguistic rule and there are laws , and when you break them there are consequence , and that ’s a huge part of that film . Are there rules and law in the new Caesar ’s world that he ’s created ? Will we see him enforce the rules ?

Serkis : Yes , there are very introductory tenants of feeling like , “ Knowledge Is king , ” and “ Ape Shall Not Kill Ape . ” The question is , if we were starting a gild from scrape , what would we carry with us ? But he ’s an ape of his word , he does gestate the legal philosophy out , yeah .
You mentioned Caesar ’s wife — what other characters are we going to see Caesar interact with ? Will it be mostly apes ? I saw the Orangutan Maurice in the footage , so we know he ’s back .
There ’s a very strong family relationship between Caesar and his teenage son , River . This picture is very much about family unit , about how and to what length one run to , to fight back 1 family without being destructive to others . So it is about tribalism , to a sure exten ) . His Word really embody the spirit of the new , about the hypothesis of a new future tense . And yet , an impetuous time to come . Caesar acts as a counter balance to his son ’s desire for change and his slightly ( in his heart ) heedless “ way forrard . ”

He ’s wield a teenaged son , and you see that kinship evolve and modification , it ’s a immense part of it . The other primal relationship that he has is with one of the human beings play by Jason Clarke , Malcolm . When it transpires that there could potentially be a flare up between Apes and Humans , but they see in each other a potential for a peaceful solution . They literally seek each other out and strain and feel a fashion of lay off things from escalating into a larger difference .
Gary Oldman ’s antagonist also looks like he ’s lose family unit . Is Caesar go to see eye - to - eye with this other rugged Father of the Church ?
Gary Oldman ’s character , you really do feel an incredible amount sympathy for him , but he ’s also a pragmatist and a survivor . And he ’s very much of the sentiment that Apes must be pass over out . And although you sympathize with that character and his tragic losses … it really examines with a swelled hullabaloo and a big regime change in both guild . What are the things you arrest on to ? How far are you fain to go in the destruction of the other to keep your own federation of tribes alive , and your own family safe ?

How much of the culture that Caesar has established become humanized ? Since Caesar is around more copycat , you would adopt he become more emulator - like , right ?
Actually , it ’s the opposite ! Physically , he ’s more human like . I always believe that Caesar was almost a human in an ape ’s body . That was the way I approached him from the parole “ go . ” He was the diametric all the clock time . He ’s an foreigner , he ’s outside his own pelt . Although he ’s create this gild of apes he ’s believably the most human being - like one there . As we discussed earlier , he has carry with him the good of humanity . You see that as really he start to use human language more , and encourages the other apes to practice human language more , as a style of understanding the other . There ’s no pauperism to be single in his eyes .
So are other ape using human lyric ? Are we going to see school set up , where there ’s a instructor and nicknack ?

Yes . You do , very early on , you see Maurice act as a shoal instructor and teach the next coevals . It ’s a real fertile ground for exploring . The 2d coevals kids who learn faster than their parents , and so on and so forth . We had a hatful exploration of the combination — not jumping too far forward so they ’re all very eloquent and philosophic and articulate , but so they express themselves still through ape vocalizations , through the mansion language that Caesar has taught them and Maurice has taught them , and some prototype human language .
CinemaCon debuted a Scottish reel today that was Lord of the Rings all the room through to The Hobbit , and there ’s a shaft of you in your lily-white performance capture causa as a very early Gollum . In this movie , I remember see the reel that Fox showed of you acting in the monkey home ground where you could see your facial facial expression clear being translated onto the human face of Caesar . I ’m wondering if you could give us an idea of how far we ’ve hail with carrying into action capture from then to now ?
We started Lord of the Rings in 1999 , so it ’s been a longsighted meter now . I ’ve been lucky enough to sort of be on this trajectory which has taken me into performance capture in a major way . And I ’ve seize it with both hands , because I believe it ’s an amazing puppet , and it is a hepatic portal vein into trifle all manner of characters . Which I have done .

The technology has evolved in the signified that it ’s become more transparent . You do n’t really substantiate that it ’s there at all anymore . And even more significantly , the sensing has changed — the manipulation of the author performance is much more respected .
The engineering is one matter , but basically one has to call back that it is only engineering . public presentation seizure is another bunch of photographic camera . It ’s 360 degree cameras filming an doer , and I think it ’s the savvy of that has changed , and that ’s happened because we ’ve give way from a single part like Gollum to multiple characters in films like Avatar . It suddenly go from being an external , peripheral activity and a singular activeness to virtual production . Avatar was a groundbreaking movie . And [ in terms of ] performance capture live on set , ascent of the Planet of the Apes was a plot changer there because it enable you to be actually out on location shooting the motion-picture show . And then this movie , Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , is the biggest ever . In raise we were shoot on sets for the first time . And with this , it ’s the biggest on - location shoot with performance seizure and multiple characters . There ’s been a significant modification .
But also the way that Weta digital , whom I ’ve worked with on oct of those project , that they have now schooled their animators to abide by the public presentation that are given by the actors on set . And the teams of hoi polloi who understand that way of working now are established . And that ’s something that has really alter . It ’s a given that they perfectly copy [ the carrying out ] to the letter , to the breaker point in effect what they are doing is painting digital make-up onto player ’ operation . It ’s that understanding which has change as much as anything .

How much of Jungle Book will be operation seizure ?
Everything . It will be an entirely performance seizure movie .
Wow ! sing beast — the whole she - bang ?

The whole shebang .
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