00:00That's a good question. I can't do it in a word, but I would say our movie really is about
00:05knowledge is power.
00:15So a new film, new story, new characters without Caesar.
00:19For what did you start in building the new Planet of the Apes?
00:24Yeah, I mean, it was a challenge, right?
00:26There's so much love and affection for that previous trilogy that came before us, you know, and myself included.
00:31I think some of the greatest movies that have been made.
00:33And the question for us was, can we do a worthy follow-up where we can be our own thing
00:38but still stand on their shoulders, essentially, right?
00:42So we're both a sequel and a prequel in that way because in our sights, way up on the horizon
00:49is that 1968 original with Charlton Heston.
00:52And so we're a movie that tries to be a bridge between both those movies, you know, in a strange
00:57way.
00:57And hopefully we've done that, you know?
01:01How did you work on characters?
01:03What were you looking for in casting humans and defining games?
01:08Yeah, I mean, it was a challenge, I think, casting this movie.
01:11You had to find actors that were willing to look ridiculous, wearing all this crazy technological kind of stuff.
01:18And then you had the human girl that, you know, has to act against all that stuff.
01:23And how we make that whole thing feel real is a challenge.
01:27But, you know, we're working with some of the best kind of technicians and artists that are available in the
01:33world to make all that reality hopefully seamless and mesmerizing to watch.
01:40I mean, it's really fascinating to watch apes sit there and just talk.
01:44You know, a scene that might be otherwise kind of mundane is somehow elevated, you know, watching these essentially synthetic
01:52creatures that you totally believe are real communicate with each other.
01:56It's really, really fun.
01:57It was a really fun process and task, you know, to take on.
02:01The film is set many generations after the ending of the previous one.
02:07Was it important for you to be in a time undefined and far from the ending of the story we
02:14know so far?
02:15Yeah, for me it was the only way in for me personally, just as a storyteller.
02:20I wasn't interested in making a part four personally.
02:22I think that last trilogy was so well wrapped up.
02:26You know, it was a nice number.
02:28One, two, three.
02:29Our human brains are just wired to have beginning, middle, and end.
02:33You know what I mean?
02:33And somehow to tack on a part four we would always just be that.
02:37You know, a kind of like shameless sequel or some kind of thing that's, you know.
02:41So anyway, for me, the distance from that world without abandoning it completely, it opened up all these incredible opportunities,
02:51you know, of story and character that to me felt like the right way to do a new Planet of
02:57the Apes, you know, and a new chapter in this very long-running legacy of movies, you know.
03:05You have many apes, a lot of water, wet fuel.
03:10Which was the main technical challenge of this project?
03:14Yeah, I think you listed some of them there, but also the technical challenge was there's a lot more apes
03:19in this movie.
03:20And there's a lot more world in this movie because it's a road movie.
03:23It's a journey that Noah sets out on.
03:25And we have to create a world that is, you know, the remains of our human world, you know.
03:31And creating that doesn't exist.
03:33You can't build all that.
03:34You know what I mean?
03:34So obviously it's a lot of visual effects and stuff.
03:36But you're right.
03:37There is some, you know, visual effects work at the end of the movie that could not, would not have
03:44been possible a few years ago.
03:46And fortunately, Wet FX, these awesome, amazing, you know, talented artists there had just finished a little movie, a small
03:54movie called Way of Water, where a lot of R&D was created involving water.
03:59And so we got to leverage a lot of that knowledge and apply it to these apes, you know, that
04:04have wet fur in the water.
04:05It's this wild stuff.
04:06And, yeah, looking forward to, you know, a lot of the geeks out there that really enjoy this stuff to
04:11witness sort of what I think is some of the best CG that I think is capable at this moment,
04:18you know.
04:20Now we have the original films, the recent trilogy, and now the new beginning.
04:25Can you describe with one word each one of them?
04:30Each one of them?
04:32Yeah, the original films, the recent trilogy, and now your new starting point.
04:38That's a good question.
04:40I can't do it in a word, but I would say our movie really is about knowledge is power.
04:46You know, that's what we kind of really explore in this movie, I think.
04:50Okay, thank you so much.
04:52All right, cheers.
04:53Congratulations for your film.
04:54Thank you very much.
04:55Take care.
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