During 2009, however, Scott Frank left the project. It was reported that it was too expensive and seen as too dark, and might have been too cerebral for the studio that makes movies like X-Men Origins: Wolverine.[5] Frank was apparently unwilling to change direction, and Scott Rudin left as well. Fox briefly hired writer Jamie Moss (Street Kings) to rework Frank's script, but the future of Caesar seemed up in the air. Then, over Christmas 2009, the original writers were brought back and told to prepare a new draft urgently.[6][3] Jaffa recalled, "Amanda and I worked on it for about two years or so, and then Scott came on. We worked with Scott, and he was functioning as the director and we were the writers, and we did a few drafts with him. That was over a period of a few months, and then Scott did one draft and then moved on. There was more development, and then we were brought back at some point to bring it back to a version of where we started. So Scott did one draft."[1] A version of the script dated January 8, 2010 was later leaked, written by Silver & Jaffa. Amanda Silver believed one major improvement was the development of the character of Will's father (replacing the geneticist's wife from earlier drafts). The Golden Gate Bridge now became the focal point of the ending, satisfying Tom Rothman's demand for an iconic image like the Statue of Liberty.[7][3] Chernin Entertainment - the company set up by Peter Chernin, one of Rothman's predecessors as Chairman of Fox - was tipped to produce.[6]
March 2010 brought news that Fox had hired Rupert Wyatt, writer/director of The Escapist, to direct the once-again-retitled Caesar: Rise of the Apes. Wyatt later recalled, "Just after I had finished 'The Escapist' I was sent the script for this, pre-Scott Frank, and it was a very different movie. It was written by the same writers, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who originated the script. Contrary to a lot of reports, people think this was Scott Frank's project from conception, which it wasn't. They had a take on it that ultimately was very different from the film you saw. Scott Frank got involved in that and developed it in a certain direction the studio didn't want to go, didn't see eye-to-eye, I'm not entirely sure what happened but he left the project. Rick and Amanda came back onto the project and then the studio decided it was a film they really wanted to make. They started seeking a new director, which is when I came in. Rick and Amanda in the meantime had reconfigured certain aspects of the original script and evolved it to such a place that when I got the script I remembered it from three years before but it had become very different and much more exciting to me. It became less a story of domesticization of a pet and more about an uprising and a Che Guevara story."[8] Details of the script were leaked in March: "Like Frank's version, 'Caesar: Rise of the Apes' is centered on genetic research. Will is a doctor trying to cure Alzheimers, a disease that afflicts his father. He's working with monkeys to create a benign virus that can get into brain tissue and restore functionality. After his research is shut down he's left with just one chimp, the child of his most promising subject, and Will raises him at home. Young Caesar is incredibly intelligent for an ape, and over time he continues to mutate and evolve, looking less like a chimp and moving on from sign language to actual speech. Eventually Caesar ends up leading an army of apes in an uprising just as a catastrophe strikes mankind." It was also reported that the movie would include nods to the original movie and tie directly into the original movie series: "TV newscasts recount the launch of a space craft called the 'Icarus', led by a Colonel Taylor, which eventually disappears while going around the dark side of Mars... A female scientist is named Stewart, which was the name of the female Icarus crew-member. Dodge and Landon, also Icarus crew-members in the original film, appear as names, but in very different roles than in 'Planet of the Apes'. Dodge is a bad guy, in fact."[9] These 'nods' had been included right from the earliest draft scripts, with the studio even asking the writers to tone them down; instead they just used more obscure references that went over the studio executive's heads. The idea of including Taylor's ship appeared about the third or fourth draft, around late 2007. Mark Bomback (Live Free Or Die Hard) was brought in as an uncredited 'script doctor', and among his contributions was Caesar drawing the shape of his bedroom window on his cage wall to remind him of home. Wyatt took this concept further by using the window shape as Caesar's logo - as featured in on-screen graffiti and in early publicity material.[7]
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The film takes place over the course of six to eight years or so, beginning in the here and now and culminating as Caesar grows up and his intelligence increases dramatically.[10] The events of the film are set between 2010 and 2016.[14] The leaked January 2010 version of the Silver/Jaffa script had the female primatologist character named 'Mollie Stewart', but later drafts replaced her with Caroline Aranha. The father character (Lithgow) was named Charles. The primatologist and Franco's geneticist character, Will, become lovers. Caesar lives with Will, and a mean neighbor mistreats Caesar which leads to his anger at humans. Caesar acquires the ability to speak and gets smart gradually. The apes revolt using their "brute strength", rather than weapons. This draft was described as "a smart science-fiction film" and "a loose prequel... down the middle between a prequel to the 1968 film and a reboot", but there was reportedly also pressure from Fox to "dumb it down" quite a bit. "It's not that dark, but it has dark moments. It's very chilling. There isn't much action up until the third act, then the action gets intense". "The only thing that's the same as 'Conquest' is that the name of the first chimp to talk is 'Caesar', and that's it".[15] This film would have less connection to Pierre Boulle's original novel than any of the previous Apes films, using none of his character names (unless you count 'Cornelia'), no alien world of intelligent apes and no talking primates; only the use the 'Planet of the Apes' name would merit Boulle's "suggested by" credit. In contrast, character names like Landon and Dodge were created by Rodman (Rod) Serling, who also devised the twist of apes taking over planet Earth. The concept of ape servitude provoking a revolution by its mute victims was then detailed in films written by Paul Dehn to explain Serling's premise, so whether or not the makers acknowledge it, this is a movie based substantially on Serling's and Dehn's ideas.
Live-action filming took place in Vancouver in July and August, where a large number of actors from the city's thriving film industry also joined the cast. Other parts of British Columbia were also used for location shooting, and a huge replica of part of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was constructed. As on Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes ten years earlier, acrobat and actor Terry Notary coached the other ape actors in the technique of simian movement. The first scene shot using the new digital technology was the fight between Caesar and his neighbour (Hunsiker). The scenes involving the young Caesar were filmed with Andy Serkis, who was digitally 'shrunk' to an appropriate height. In mid-August 2010, on day 35 of the 58-day shoot, a reporter from Empire Magazine visited filming "at the British Columbia Institute Of Technology's Aerospace Campus in Richmond; a 300,000-square-foot facility whose smooth, gunmetal and dark-glass styling suits the story's present-day-to-very-close-future setting, doubling as it does for the Gen-Sys research facility - the appropriately named Ground Zero spot for events which will spiral and eventually evolve into the worldwide dominance of those "damn, dirty apes" some 20 centuries later. ...It is here that "chimp-plus" Caesar (Andy Serkis) was sired some six years earlier, born to one of Rodman's test subjects; both mother and offspring vastly mentally developed as a result of their exposure to Will's '112 drug'." A total of 250 scenes were filmed, which contained over 900 visual effects shots. Rise was the first movie shooting the majority of its performance capture on location and on live sets rather than in a volume (motion-capture stage), with director Rupert Wyatt telling Empire, "That [Golden Gate Bridge] set was so massive, Weta had to essentially build a volume to digitally capture the 360 degrees of that world and recreate it, so rigging for something like that is quite a huge task." Serkis added, "It was the biggest-ever motion-capture volume on a live-action set. It was, like, 400 metres long, and they managed to get motion-capture cameras to cover the entire area, which was just extraordinary - in daylight, with reflective surfaces like cars, etc. It was a real, real milestone for performance capture."[14] 2ff7e9595c
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