War for the Planet of the Apes

Movies & TV Shows That Copied the End of ‘Planet of the Apes’
Movies & TV Shows That Copied the End of ‘Planet of the Apes’
Movies & TV Shows That Copied the End of ‘Planet of the Apes’
War for the Planet of the Apes arrives in theaters this week about a year shy of the franchise’s 50th anniversary. Over half a century, Planet of the Apes has had an enormous impact on popular culture. The prosthetic masks for its ape characters set a new standard for Hollywood makeup effects .Several of its most quotable lines of dialogue became ingrained in the pop culture lexicon. Any time someone tells you to take their stinking paws of another person, Planet of the Apes is there.
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.
How Well Do You Know 'Planet of the Apes'?
How Well Do You Know 'Planet of the Apes'?
How Well Do You Know 'Planet of the Apes'?
You know the Planet of the Apes series, including the newest film, War for the Planet of the Apes. But did you know that the original movie, based on a French science-fiction novel, was actually co-written by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling? It’s true, and while some of Serling’s draft was changed before the film was made, one big component survived: He was the one who suggested the twist ending involving the Statue of Liberty. (Of course he did, Rod Serling loved twist endings.) That’s just one of the facts featured in the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies!
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.
Matt Reeves Wants to Make ‘The Batman’ More ‘Emotional’
Matt Reeves Wants to Make ‘The Batman’ More ‘Emotional’
Matt Reeves Wants to Make ‘The Batman’ More ‘Emotional’
Matt Reeves has a pretty intimidating task ahead of him with The Batman: He’ll have to fill the shoes that Ben Affleck himself almost wore as director, and he’ll also have to make a solo superhero film that stacks up against Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, which has bested all four of its DCEU predecessors at the domestic box office. He already has a few plans up his sleeve, one of which is to make it more like Planet of the Apes.
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
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.

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