Rupert Wyatt

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uh, Our first two remakes that we did were directed by Rupert Wyatt and F. Gary Gray.

I have nothing against them, but they are directors at a certain level of just role players in Hollywood.

Luca, I have a huge amount of respect for, and I've loved a good number of his movies.

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Let's talk about apes and apes adjacent directors, because next week we're watching the remake of The Gambler, which is directed by Rupert Wyatt, who directed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Oh, yeah.

Which will then follow up with the original Planet of the Apes and then Tim Burton's remake, also starring Mark Wahlberg.

So today we're talking about rise of the planet of the apes which comes before dawn so just keep that straight we go rise then we do dawn so i know some sometimes it doesn't feel like that should be the way that things progress but before we get into our thoughts on this uh film from 2010 2011 when did this come out 2011 we're going to let Dan and because I don't know the facts Dan's going to give us some facts about Rise of the Planet of the Apes

and then we'll come back and discuss It is the rise before the dawn, as this week we continue our Planet of the Apes retrospective with a look at Rise of the Planet of the Apes from 2011, directed by Rupert Wyatt.

The story follows Will Rodham, a scientist working for a pharmaceutical company who is developing a drug called ALZ-112 to treat Alzheimer's disease.

After testing the drug on chimpanzees, Will discovers it dramatically increases intelligence, but an unexpected incident causes the research to be shut down.

One of the biggest misconceptions about the making of the film, and Caesar particularly, is that Andy Serkis simply provided the voice and the facial expressions while animators created the ape.

In reality, Serkis performed Caesar physically on set, wearing a motion capture suit and facial markers, where the digital then translated his performance into the digital chimpanzee.

Director Rupert Wyatt said filmmaking was like making the film more than once.

First, they filmed Circus's performance of Caesar, then Weta had to painstakingly reconstruct that performance as a digital animal.