Na het grote succes dit jaar van de film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes wordt er inmiddels al gepraat over een vervolg, waarin aap Caesar uiteraard weer een grote rol zal gaan spelen. In een interview verteld regisseur Matt Reeves wat zijn plannen zijn met het karakter van Andy Serkis.
The first one is sort of how [Caesar] goes from humble beginnings to becoming a revolutionary. In ‘Dawn,’ he really rose to occasion of becoming a leader in really challenging and difficult times. The notion of what we’re after with the third is to sort of continue that trajectory and see how he becomes a seminal figure in ape history. He almost becomes sort of like an ape Moses. A mythic status… We’re trying to play out those themes and continue to sort of explore it in this universe. Exploring human nature under the guise of apes.Reeves geeft ook aan dat het cruciaal is voor de ontwikkeling van het personage dat hij er nooit echt helemaal bij hoort.
A thing I always found very moving was the concept of a character that was [an outsider],” Reeves adds. “Andy [Serkis] told me the way he played him and the thing that really moved me was that [Caesar] was really all about being an outsider. [He] said that [he] felt [he] was human until the one day it was made clear that that [he isn’t]. [He] said it felt like heartbreak. Like, ‘Oh, I’m not one of them!’ Then he’s thrown in with the apes, but he’s not one of them either. He’s an outsider to both. That was very moving to me because he’s an outsider to both but connected to both. He is the unique character in this story to be able to connect between the human and the ape world.
De derde film zal vanaf 28 juli 2016 in de bioscoop te zien zijn.
