Apes Trailer
Interesting enough. Question for me is, do all Fox summer action fx movies need to close with a helicopter gag?
May 3, 2024
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You forgot the A-Team helicopter gag.
Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a franchise and they’re all called RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: [SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING].
Wow, this looks better than I would have thought. I mean, completely unoriginal – you can basically see the story beats in any number of other recent films, including I Robot and 28 Days Later.
But…..you have like six films to build stuff on, so why not? Not sure why they’re pushing the WETA angle as if that makes it an event – don’t they do the effects for about a half dozen movies per year? And I remember watching the super-condensed closing credits for Avatar (four columns, literally!) and there were at least two other effects houses that worked on that film including ILM – does any one know how it broke down on that movie, which effects house did the bulk of it?
Any excuse to say “Avatar”, but really, this looks pretty good. Score one for the marketing team.
This looks tremendous.
This was the big summer movie I’m most looking forward to. That trailer just solidified it.
Geoff – If I recall, Weta did the bulk of Avatar’s FX work, but they farmed out some sequences near the end.
Some points made in this trailer:
1) The Planet of the Apes is brought about by the Umbrella Corporation.
2) Seriously, the god damn Umbrella Corporation.
3) There are a bunch of “White Folks In Peril” shots. I haven’t seen that many in a trailer since the Happening.
4) Those background apes are tremendous.
and
5) Still not sold on the main Apes and probably will ignore this film in canon, thanks to the utterly hilarity ensuing when I think of UMBRELLA starting the PLANET OF THE APES! DAMN YOU FRANCO WEXLER!
SM, most of the Pandora I believe is ILM but most of the characters are WETA.
no. ILM did NOT design or render pandora, io, no matter how many times you’d like to repeat that nonsense. pandora is 100% W digital, as are the creatures and the mo-cap animation. ILM were brought in at the eleventh hour to help with some final rendering in the big battle sequence when time was running out, and i believe they also did a small amount of rendering work for the in-camera animation for the virtual camera when the system was in development in pre-prod., after which their involvement ceased.
(and don’t bother trying to argue against this io because you have no idea what you’re talking about)
“Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a franchise and they’re all called RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: [SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING].”
How about RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: EVEN RISIER?
‘rise of the planet of the apes 2: the middle begins at the end of the beginning’
RISE OF THE REVENGE OF THE CONQUEST OF THE BATTLE OF THE RETURN OF AND BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
Coming Soon To A Theater Near You
Rise of the Planet of the Apes the Summer Before The Dark Knight Rises.
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Leah, I know you are all Peyton Oswalt in Big Fan about WETA but I am not, I never will be, and I did state I BELIEVE. I did not state I KNOW. Excuse me, Leah. EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
IO just a warning. don’t ask her about the mocap infrared cockup on ROTA and why there are more monkeys painting before showtime than ever before.
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that was fucking awesome. man, this looks right up my alley.
I don’t know why (overexposure maybe), but I feel like if James Franco’s character died after the first ten minutes of this movie, I’d care so little about his demise that the sight of his name in the closing credits would make me think, “James FRANCO was in this movie?!? Who the hell did he play?”.
I like the idea of the movie, but visually it just looks like a second or third-tier effort. Franco’s a really good actor, but believing in him as a brilliant neuro-scientist is one step removed from buying Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist in “The World Is Not Enough”.
I’m worried about the Lost World portion of this trailer. Things seem to be going down the same that movie ended. Hopefully though things don’t get romanticized ala King Kong or whatever the hell Peter Jackson was doing in his movie.
hallick, i respectfully disagree.
the guy is smart. i don’t know if he’s neuro-scientist smart, but after watching the guy on Colbert, i can say he’s got a lot more levels than people give him credit for.
I don’t know what a neuro-scientist looks like. i got this from google images
http://newsroanoke.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/neuro.jpg
and apparently, its neuroscientist.
Yeah Franco is pretty damn clever and Nick, those are called WHITE FOLKS IN PERIL shots. Seriously, that trailer has way too many of them, and that’s what gives me a THE HAPPENING vibe. “The last time, the trees killed you. This time, it’s the BULLET-PROOF APES THAT KILL YOU!”
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Spoiler alert.. apparently someone marries a monkey in this movie.
Is that the plot? The Apes become sentient and then lobby for the right to marry?
Is the “Rise” of the Apes a metaphorical one? Could the Gorilla jumping off the end be trying to get the attention of the press?
Why has nobody pointed out the irony of the resident batshit fanboy comparing someone else to Patton Oswalt in Big Fan?
Because I’m not a batshit fanboy, ya jerk!
I should add…that does look like an awesome summer fun movie. Much more fun and exciting than the Marvel offerings.
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uh, io, the difference between you and me re: WETA
you “believe” (ie you have no idea what yer talking about but say stuff anyway as if you do), but i KNOW (ie i work here in the production half of the co. so i actually, you know, KNOW what i’m talking about). so “believe” stuff till the cows come home but that has nothing to do with reality
Leah, I admitted that I am wrong. No need to get all up in arms about it.
Don, you know Cap and Thor are going to rock your ass off. You know it. Just accept it already and post it on FACEBOOK! HIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
wait, this is you “admitt[ing] that [you’re] wrong”?
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ok, good to know, i honestly never would have extrapolated that
and ‘vita’, go sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here!
Leah, it is too much to expect you to know about the awesomeness of Vickie Guerrero all the way down yonder, but you flew off the handle because of a supposition. It’s not like I stated that I am right but you came at me with fangs, so I responded with claws. Nevertheless, no big deal, and moving on.
FWIW, Philip Jose Farmer said he’d have to assume Tarzan’s first sexual experiences would almost assuredly be with the apes that raised him.
An ape in a wedding dress doesn’t seem so ridiculous now, eh?
io, at no point did i “fly off the handle because of a supposition” (whatever that means) in quite succinctly pointing out that you were wrong, and how.
i don’t think caesar will marry right away, he’ll travel and go to uni first
Leah, the next time you are making a guess about something but I know that guess is wrong. I will jump down your ass about it, so you know how it feels 😀 !
fine, but jump gently please, and fair warning: i have serious white-woman lack-of-ass-syndrome so you’re likely to miss it altogether and land on the ground on your own ass
A very hearty ha and here in the states, some of us refer to that as “The KE$HA Problem.”
I think it’s pretty telling how desperate Fox is that they’re trying to sell the movie on WETA’s back with the first card, which might be unprecedented (“FROM WETA DIGITAL” — what, did they produce the movie or are they merely a vendor?) And if I were Peter Jackson, I’d be particularly galled to let a trailer being sold on my company’s back include so many shots that, while they may look good when the movie is eventually released, are, in their current state, so clearly rough, unfinished and fake looking (like the aforementioned helicopter gag and the apes running over cars in the street one).
the effects footage being previewed would be joe’s call, and clearly, he’s on board
Shilli that’s a good point but the FX do not look that bad. Compared to the other trailer today, yeah, not as finished, but they have different release dates so that’s to be expected. What blows my mind is the title card and that this plot comes from Deep Blue Sea apparently. Really? That’s the best they could do? Ripping off Deep Blue Sea? COME ON!
“3) There are a bunch of ‘White Folks In Peril’ shots. I haven’t seen that many in a trailer since the Happening.”
Aww come on IO…don’t they have the most to lose?
[stares at Hal to portray a WHITE FOLK IN PERIL] Apparently, Hal, they do.
Well, the trailer definitely worked for me. Yeah, there are quite a few standard elements which could mean a predictable boring movie but based off this, and the fact there’s no 3D marker, would likely put my butt in a seat opening w/e.
Yeah, I’ve been on the helicopter thing for a while. It’s getting to the point that all it takes is an industrial strength bug spray can take one of these birds down it’s so ridiculous. I think there was a man vs helicopter shot in the 28 Weeks Later trailer too. Though I loved that movie. Now as I’m thinking of other Fox dist films, it’s probably in quite a few, all within the final 10 seconds. Good work in sniffing that out.
…and don’t forget the annihilation of Dr. Will Smith’s family in I Am Legend because a few people dangling from a departing helicopter made it go completely out of control.