Andy Serkis

Watch Andy Serkis Read Trump Tweets as Gollum
Watch Andy Serkis Read Trump Tweets as Gollum
Watch Andy Serkis Read Trump Tweets as Gollum
Performing President Trump’s tweets has become a cottage industry unto itself, particularly on and around the world of television comedy. Voice actor Billy West has recorded audio of his Futurama character Zapp Brannigan, and I thought that was the perfect blend of subject and target. But then I saw this clip from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where Andy Serkis, motion-capture artist extraordinaire and star of War for the Planet of the Apes, read Trump tweets aloud as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. Now we may have a new Trump tweet champion supreme.
‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Apes. Finale. Strong.
‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Apes. Finale. Strong.
‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Apes. Finale. Strong.
There is a sinister circular logic to the Planet of the Apes series. Characters journey to the stars and wind up … back on Earth. They travel back in time … and directly cause the events that lead to the rise of their dystopian future. Even as War for the Planet of the Apes concludes the story of the ape leader Caesar, it brings the franchise’s overarching narrative closer and closer to its origins on a desolate, sun-swept beach, one that looks a lot like the one Caesar and his monkey mates gallop across during their quest for revenge. That’s what makes these movies so troubling. It’s not the monkeys with machine guns or the gorillas with grenade launchers; it’s the sense that collapse is inevitable, that even when people (and apes) act with the best of intentions, they can’t escape the cruel hand (or paw) fate has dealt.
Every ‘Planet of the Apes’ Ending Ranked
Every ‘Planet of the Apes’ Ending Ranked
Every ‘Planet of the Apes’ Ending Ranked
We are told that War for the Planet of the Apes will conclude the trilogy of films started with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and continued in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, that tells the story of Caesar, the child of a laboratory chimpanzee exposed to an experimental Alzheimer’s treatment, who grows up to become the talking leader of a race of super-apes. The Apes films will continue, but Caesar’s story will not.
Watch Andy Serkis Transform Into Caesar in an Amazing New ‘War’ Featureette
Watch Andy Serkis Transform Into Caesar in an Amazing New ‘War’ Featureette
Watch Andy Serkis Transform Into Caesar in an Amazing New ‘War’ Featureette
Already I’m hearing rumblings that people want Andy Serkis to get an Oscar nomination for his performance in War for the Planet of the Apes. I am very skeptical about any performance assisted so heavily by special effects getting nominated for an Academy Awards, and I’m super very skeptical about any awards talk in late June.an
‘Breathe’ Trailer: Andrew Garfield Goes for the Gold
‘Breathe’ Trailer: Andrew Garfield Goes for the Gold
‘Breathe’ Trailer: Andrew Garfield Goes for the Gold
Before Andy Serkis’ take on The Jungle Book hits theaters (if it ever does?), you’ll have a chance to peep his directorial skills in another film: Breathe. The first trailer for Serkis’ inspiring drama, which is sure to draw comparisons to The Theory of Everything, has arrived, touting a performance from Andrew Garfield that’s sure to put him in the mix for next year’s awards race.
Early Reviews Loooove ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
Early Reviews Loooove ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
Early Reviews Loooove ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
Hot take: The Planet of the Apes has always been one of the very best franchises ever. Even back in the ’70s, even when some of the ape masks looked a little hokey, the Apes series consistently delivered some of the most thoughtful, prescient, spooky, and unrelentingly bleak sci-fi films Hollywood has ever produced. Nearly every single one ends on a mega-bummer; beloved characters dying, entire races getting wiped out, or, in one awesomely disturbing example, the entire freaking planet getting blown to smithereens.
New ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Video Details the Magic of Men Becoming Monkeys
New ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Video Details the Magic of Men Becoming Monkeys
New ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Video Details the Magic of Men Becoming Monkeys
Boys, girls, people of all ages, the Serkis has come to town! Andy Serkis, that is. The motion-capture professional will take the lead of the neo-Planet of the Apes franchise once more on July 14 for War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter in the trilogy. At this point, audiences pretty much know what to expect: the great clash between hostile humanity and peaceable simiankind rages onward and approaches a final reckoning, as the Serkis-played chimp Caesar wrestles with the terrible responsibilities of leadership in wartime. But before audiences can revisit Apeworld for one last battle, 20th Century Fox wants to be sure we all appreciate just how much went into this film.
Watch a Special Fathers Day Teaser for ‘Planet of the Apes’
Watch a Special Fathers Day Teaser for ‘Planet of the Apes’
Watch a Special Fathers Day Teaser for ‘Planet of the Apes’
This has been a good weekend for Planet of the Apes fans. Not only did we get our first look at some of the early buzz for the final film in the trilogy  —  buzz that suggest that War for the Planet of the Apes might just be the best and bleakest movie in the series yet  —  we’ve also been treated to a special Father’s Day trailer that explores the universal truths of fathers, sons, and legacy. Sentient apes or human, we’re all just trying to leave behind a better world for our children.
Meet Bad Ape in Latest ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Clip
Meet Bad Ape in Latest ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Clip
Meet Bad Ape in Latest ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Clip
Just because War for the Planet of the Apes is poised to finish up the current Apes trilogy, that doesn’t mean it can’t introduce a few new characters into the mix. We’ve already met Nova, the mute human child that’ll connect this trilogy to the original movies, but there’s another new face joining Caesar’s crew. Bad Ape, portrayed by Steve Zahn, is a similarly altered chimpanzee who learned to talk when the Simian Flu hit and wiped out most of humanity, and he brings news to Caesar’s tribe of an ape zoo that he escaped from.
War Gets Emotional in the Latest ‘Planet of the Apes’ Spot
War Gets Emotional in the Latest ‘Planet of the Apes’ Spot
War Gets Emotional in the Latest ‘Planet of the Apes’ Spot
If you’d told me a decade ago that one of my most highly anticipated moments of the summer would be a showdown between Woody Harrelson and a CGI primate, I probably would have politely excused myself, driven to the local video store, rented a VHS copy of Clint Eastwood’s Every Which Way But Loose, and smacked you over the head with the cassette tape. My, how things change. Under the careful eye of director Matt Reeves, the war between primates and mankind is now one of the hottest summer tickets, and the early trailers and teasers for War for the Planet of the Apes promise one of the best big-budget movies of the year.

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