War for the Planet of the Apes – Director Matt Reeves Speaks!
If there’s one thing Fox has done right over the last several years, it’s how it’s treated the Planet of the Apes franchise. After Tim Burton’s film fans felt as if all was lost, but Dawn and Rise proved otherwise in a big way!
Today Collider sat down with director Matt Reeves to discuss the next flick, which is officially being called War for the Planet of the Apes, and we LOVE that! The apes going to war was always the plan, but just in case Reeves didn’t want to box himself in for the next film, they made some changes to the end of Dawn.
“We actually did have an ending [for Dawn] that went one step further,” says Reeves, “and I realized late in the game, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t want us to be boxed in in this way. I think we should be left with a more open [ending]’—knowing that we were going to figure out what the next story is—I didn’t want to in a way narrow our options. I wanted to open them up.”
“What was really most important was to leave you in that emotional space with Caesar, which is the ending of the movie that you’ve seen, and know that the future is coming, but not already be at that future. Because the moment is really about the moment that’s past. It could have been the planet of the humans and the apes, and that parting between Caesar and Malcolm is a very emotional moment to me, and I didn’t want something that distracted and became something else.”
“So yeah, there actually was another version of the movie, and that version never even got fully realized. We cut it late, but the effects for it weren’t realized for it either.”
Look for more on this one soon!
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