Chilling New DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Featurette

20th Century Fox has released a new featurette for DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES that’s very unnerving. Beginning with RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the video connects the two movies and shows what happened to mankind after the 2011 film finished. It ain’t good folks.

(via MSN)

Plus, via the film’s Facebook page, a new photo of “Caesar’s loving partner” Cornelia, along with their baby, was unveiled.

The pair in the original APES franchise were Zira and Cornelius. Their chimpanzee baby born in the third film, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971), is hidden by Armando (Ricardo Montalbán) and grows up to become Caesar in the fourth film, CONQUEST OF PLANET OF THE APES (1972).

The screenwriters from RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, hid easter egg names throughout the film. It was a fantastic wink to the original movies. I hope they’ve done the same with DAWN.

A decade has passed since apes and man have come face-to-face. Now the two societies face a difficult choice between working together to co-exist or battle to become the dominant species.

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

The film’s screenplay is by Mark Bomback and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and based on characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver.

The film stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Enrique Murciano, Kirk Acevedo, Karin Konoval, and Judy Greer.

Oscar-winning visual effects house WETA Digital – employing a new generation of the cutting edge performance capture technologies developed for Rise of the Apes and Avatar – will again render photo-realistic, emotionally-engaging apes. The film’s key behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Michael Seresin, production designer James Chinland, and VFX Supervisors Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon, VFX producers Ryan Stafford, editor Bill Hoy and Stan Salfas, and costume designer Melissa Brunning. The score is from the Academy Award winning composer Michael Giacchino (UP).

Director Matt Reeves’ movie hits theaters July 11, 2014, in 3D.

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