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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Andy Serkis	-	Caesar
	Woody Harrelson	-	The Colonel
	Steve Zahn	-	Bad Ape
	Karin Konoval	-	Maurice
	Amiah Miller	-	Nova
	Terry Notary	-	Rocket
	Ty Olsson	-	Red Donkey
	Michael Adamthwaite	-	Luca
	Toby Kebbell	-	Koba
	Gabriel Chavarria	-	Preacher
	Judy Greer	-	Cornelia
	Sara Canning	-	Lake
	Devyn Dalton	-	Cornelius
	Aleks Paunovic	-	Winter
	Alessandro Juliani	-	Spear

Co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves also pointed out that the apes in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) don't wear clothing, but the end point of the future ape society seen in Planet of the Apes (1968) wears clothing, and Bad Ape is also supposed to be the start of a progression in this direction. To survive in a harsh winter, he's the first ape we see who shifted to wearing heavy winter coats he scavenged.

According to co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves, the name of the group of rebelling humans are the Alpha and Omega, a reference to the bomb the mutants worshipped in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). The logo on their helmets and flag matches the original logo on the bomb.

While promoting Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Andy Serkis was asked if the ALZ-113 drug had also affected apes outside of Caesar's tribe. Co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves and co-Writer Mark Bomback took note of this, which led to the introduction of "Bad Ape" in this film.

The little girl named Nova is named after the character played by Linda Harrison in Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970).

The mutation of the Simian Flu virus rendering the surviving humans mute and mindless is a foreshadowing of the events in Planet of the Apes (1968), in which the surviving human population is mute and primitive.

In October 2016, it was announced that a fourth Planet of the Apes film was already being planned.

This is the first time that Maurice the orangutan is heard speaking English sentences. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) showed that Maurice knew sign language from his days in the circus, which he probably taught to the other apes. He only utters the word "run" in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Although Maurice clearly understands human speech, he chooses to communicate with ape grunts and sign language until now.

According to co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves, the apes that serve the humans are called "donkeys" both as a reference to Donkey Kong and, like donkeys, they are used as pack animals.

In Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Caesar could only utter a few words, most notably, "No!" In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), his vocabulary had increased greatly and he was able to speak in nearly full sentences with syntax and grammar, but still with a rough tone and cadence to his voice. In this film, he is able to speak nearly identical to what a human can produce, indicating his growth into personhood.

According to co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves, it was Woody Harrelson's idea to begin addressing Caesar by listing the military rivals of the past, "Wellington and Napoleon, Grant and Lee, Custer and Sitting Bull," while noting that as an ape, Caesar would not know what he was talking about.

The Overlook Hotel from The Shining (1980) makes an appearance.

Caesar's son shares his name with the Roddy McDowall character, Cornelius, in Planet of the Apes (1968). In the first five movies, Caesar is the son of Cornelius, eventually naming his own son Cornelius after his father.

Speaking with MTV, Andy Serkis was asked about the setting for the upcoming third film and revealed that the third film may not be the conclusion to the franchise. He stated, "It's very, very early in where we choose to drop anchor in the next film. It could be five years after the event, it could be the night after the events of where we left 'Dawn', so it's very difficult to know where the story is going right at this moment because it's being written as we speak. I know that part of the desire for Matt Reeves to do this next movie is about continuing the enjoyment of seeing these apes evolve. So I don't think we're going to see a situation where we're jumping. It might be three films; it could be four. It could be five. Who knows? But the journey will continue. It might not necessarily be summarized or completely fulfilled in this next one. The point being, eventually we know that we're going to end up back at 'The Planet of the Apes', but whether it's this film or not, I don't know."

Steve Zahn admitted in a Film4 interview that he cried after seeing the completed film for the first time as he was so moved by it.

Ape actors Andy Serkis (Caesar) and Terry Notary (Rocket) played King Kong, with Serkis in King Kong (2005) and Notary in Kong: Skull Island (2017).

Graffiti reading "APE-OCALYPSE NOW" can be seen. This is because the Colonel in this film is reminiscent of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979).

The only entry in the franchise that doesn't credit Pierre Boulle, the author of the original novel "La Planète des Singes" (Planet of the Apes). Ironically, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (another Boulle adaptation) served as a major influence on this installment.

When Maurice speaks to the human child with her new name "Nova...No-va," the dialogue used is the actual voice of Charlton Heston speaking the same words to Linda Harrison from Planet of the Apes (1968). The voice has been slightly electronically altered, but is still clearly recognizable.

Co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves explained that introducing Bad Ape was meant to start widening the fictional world for future sequels, by establishing that there are other apes across the world beyond Caesar's colony who were mentally uplifted by the Simian Flu. He added: "Bad Ape is really...he's critical to this story, but he's actually a seed that's planted that sort of says that...that's a widening up of the world. It's not just Caesar's apes. There are other apes elsewhere, and those apes haven't had the benefit of Caesar's leadership, and so who knows what they're like, and they certainly wouldn't necessarily have the level of empathy and integrity that he's tried to instill in his family of apes, so future conflicts might not just be human and ape."

Human soldier slogans, as seen on the poster, include the quote "The only good ape is a dead ape." This is a reference to the gorilla General Ursus' popular quote from Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), albeit the tables have turned.

Toby Kebbell (Koba) had expressed interest in reprising his role or performing as other characters. Plans to include Koba in a larger role in the film were abandoned early, with Mark Bomback saying "if you stayed until the very end of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes you hear Koba's breathing. We did that to give us a tiny crack of possibility that we could revive Koba if we wanted to. Very early on in spitballing, we realized there was nothing more to do with Koba, certainly nothing that would exceed what he had done in the last story. But we knew we wanted to keep him alive as an idea. In playing out the reality of what happened at the end of the last film, Caesar would be traumatized by having to kill his brother. That would have resonance, and we wanted to make sure that didn't get lost. So the answer was that we could go inside Caesar's mind at this point and revisit Koba that way."

Ty Olsson played the man who shot and killed Buck the gorilla in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and returned to play a gorilla (Red/Donkey) in this film.

In an interview, Matt Reeves talked about the inevitable war Caesar would have with the humans "As this story continues, we know that war is not avoided by the end of Dawn, that is going to take us into the world of what he's grappling with. What he's going to be thrust into circumstances that he never ever wanted to deal with, and was hoping he could avoid. And now he's right in the middle of it. The things that happened in that story test him in huge ways, in the ways in which his relationship with Koba haunts him deeply. It's going to be an epic story. I think you've probably read that I sort of described it where in the first film was very much about his rise from humble beginnings to being a revolutionary. The second movie was about having to rise to the challenge of being a great leader in the most difficult of times, this is going to be the story that is going to cement his status as a seminal figure in ape history and sort of leads to an almost Biblical status. He is going to become like a mythic ape figure like Moses."

Before beginning work on the project, Matt Reeves and Mark Bomback decided to get inspiration by watching "a million movies" according to Reeves. Among the films they asked to see at the Twentieth Century Fox screening room were: westerns, war movies, Biblical epics, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and all of the previous "Planet of the Apes" films.

Andy Serkis mentioned that the film was accompanied by a video game, for which he had performed motion capture, which was released November 21, 2017, titled Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier (2017).

The orangutan played by Karin Konoval is named Maurice. In Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), the orangutan, Dr. Zaius, was played by Maurice Evans.

Colonel McCullough was the secondary antagonist of the Revelations novel and the main antagonist of both the War comic books and this movie.

After seeing his cut of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Twentieth Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment signed Matt Reeves to return as director for this movie.

During production, Matt Reeves and Mark Bomback sought broader inspirations from films like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and The Great Escape (1963). Feeling that there was a need to imbue Biblical themes and elements, they also watched Biblical epics like Ben-Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956). The influence and inspiration were made evident in the relationship between Caesar and the Colonel, a military leader with pretensions toward godhood. Reeves has compared the relationship to the dynamic between Sir Alec Guinness' British commander and Sessue Hayakawa's prison camp in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Another comparison is Caesar's journey to find the Colonel flanked by a posse of close friends, a situation Reeves explicitly tied to Clint Eastwood's war-weary soldier in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Influences from Apocalypse Now (1979), notably the Colonel and his Alpha Omega faction being similar to Colonel Kurtz's renegade army, were also noted by several journalists. Woody Harrelson has also acknowledged the similarities and inspiration.

Devyn Dalton, who played Cornelia in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), returns to the Apes franchise to play Caesar's younger son, Cornelius, in this film.

This is the second movie in the "Planet of the Apes" film franchise where one of the characters mentions the name of the franchise, in this case being the Colonel as he calls it, "A planet of apes." The first time was in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) when Caesar, the son of Cornelius and Zira, gives a monologue of the apes success towards the end of the film.

Cornelius is also the first chimpanzee sibling to appear in the film franchise.

Maurice's statement to Nova, "You are Nova," when the latter questions her identity, has a meaning beyond one merely giving name to the other. The word nova means "new" in Latin, so the inference would be "You are new," which is quite true as she signifies a new stage in human evolution, albeit arguably a regressive one.

Amiah Miller (Nova) formed a close bond with Karin Konoval (Maurice) while the film was in principal photography.

This is the ninth feature film in the "Planet of the Apes" franchise.

It was Red the gorilla who started the rebellion of Koba's followers against Caesar in the Revelations novel.

At age twenty-four, Luca was the third oldest of the apes (sharing this with Maurice), being two years younger than Koba, who was the second oldest, and Buck who was the oldest.

Co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves is only the second person to return to direct a Planet of the Apes film. The first being J. Lee Thompson, who directed Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

In May 2015, the title was first given as War of the Planet of the Apes. By October 2015, it had been retitled as War for the Planet of the Apes.

Nova (Amiah Miller) serves as a younger counterpart to Nova in Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), though their eras of existence are separated by almost two thousand years. Nova is also mute, just like the original Nova.

The location for the apes' new home is an area by a large lake surrounded by hills and mountains next to a desert, the same landscape where Planet of the Apes (1968) was set, and a lake was where Taylor's spacecraft crashed.

Filming was also done in Hope, British Columbia, in the Othello Tunnels.

Initially the orangutan is credited as "Ape Elder" in the movie, his name was officially revealed as "Percy" in the War for the Planet of the Apes - Official Movie Novelization.

Max Lloyd-Jones replaced Nick Thurston as Blue Eyes.

This is the first iteration of the Planet of the Apes film franchise to have an albino ape: Winter.

Many viewers mistook Lake as Cornelia before the release of latest trailer, which showed Cornelia and Blue Eyes are dead.

The Colonel's (Woody Harrelson's) full name is Colonel J. Wesley McCulloch.

In the Revelations novel, Luca tells Winter he is third-in-command of Caesar's Army, implying he got the rank temporarily after Rocket left with Blue Eyes.

Woody Harrelson, who plays the psychotic Colonel who has dedicated his life to wiping out the apes, ironically is a vegan and animal rights activist.

Bad Ape (Steve Zahn) was also given the name "Green Eyes" by fans.

The shooting of Ape Elder was suggested by Woody Harrelson, who felt he had to kill one of the Apes on-screen early to be taken seriously as a villain. Twice, he touches Caesar's head, both times an improv between Harrelson and Serkis. His "Famous Opposing Generals" speech was another suggestion, including the bit about Caesar "not being much of a reader." The writers wrote it into the script. He also felt it was important for McCullough to relive the moment he killed his son, instead of just allude to it. Again, the scene was written at the actor's suggestion. One for Bad Ape and Steve Zahn, and showcasing the beauty of performance capture technology: When Bad Ape charges off to grab food for Caesar and company, Steve Zahn actually fell. Performance capture meant Bad Ape could slip and fall accidentally, too, the kind of spontaneity you can't get from a purely-CGI character.

When co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves and co-Writer Mark Bomback came on-board to helm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the film already had a release date, which led to an accelerated production schedule. However, with the third installment, Twentieth Century Fox wanted to give the duo plenty of time to write and make the film. Taking advantage of this, the two bonded with each other more than before.

The name of the group Alpha Omega and their motto "We Are the Beginning and the End" refers to the Greek alphabet where the letter Alpha is the first one in the series and the letter Omega is the last one. Furthermore, there is a Greek expression roughly translated as "The alpha and the omega of everything" meaning that if something stands between the beginning (alpha) and the end (omega) then it includes everything.

The Simian Flu that renders humans mute and supposedly lowers their cognitive functions is similar to the illness that plagued the human race in the original novel.

The motion capture roles of Ape Kid #1, Ape Kid #2, Ape Kid #3, and Ape Kid #4 are played respectively by Skye Notary, Willow Notary, Finn Notary, and Phoenix Notary. These may be children or other relatives of Terry Notary who is an acclaimed motion capture actor, movement choreographer, and stunt performer who has a long list of credits to his name. Terry Notary held several positions on this film including acting in the role of Rocket as well as receiving credits as movement choreographer and stunt performer.

The yellow beret flash The Colonel wears is the 1st Special Forces Group (Green Berets), whose home station is Fort Lewis, Washington.

Right before he dies, Luca says to Caesar, "At least this time, I was able to protect you." This is a Call-Back to his failure to protect Caesar from being shot by Koba, and possibly a reference to their failure to save Blue Eyes and Cornelia from the Colonel.

A total of nine chimpanzees and two gorillas have served the Colonel as donkeys. At least one chimpanzee and one gorilla, "Winter," joined the Colonel out of fear for their lives, and not because of their loyalty to Koba.

Winter's name and albinism may be based on Snowflake, an albino gorilla who was kept at Barcelona Zoo in Spain from 1966 until his death in 2003.

When Bad Ape (Steve Zahn) warns Caesar (Andy Serkis) not to go to the "human zoo" he says "Don't Go! Don't Go!" Immediately after this, he gives the vehicle plate to the little girl, that eventually becomes her namesake: "Nova." "No va" is Spanish for "not going."

This is the fifth time Steve Zahn played a talking animal. Zahn previously played Monty the cat in the Stuart Little film franchise, Archie the bear in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Sandy Pig in Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs & a Baby (2008), and Thunderclap, a nyctosaurus, in The Good Dinosaur (2015). In this film, he played a chimpanzee named Bad Ape.

The only film within the reboot franchise of films, where Rocket has played a main role. During, 'Rise', his role was reoccurring as he was the ape antagonist, before Koba's introduction towards the end of the film. 'Dawn', minimised his role to appearing, just under a dozen times in total.

It can be considered ironic that Preacher is indoctrinated by the Colonel into believing he is fighting a "holy war."

When Caesar observes through binoculars the encampment of the Colonel's soldiers, where Winter is found and soon killed, there is a banner the soldiers put up that reads, "The Only Good Kong Is A Dead Kong," an inversion of General Ursus' declaration in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), of "The only good human, is a dead human!"

Ironically what ends up destroying humanity in the end was not the apes but a combination of the Simian Flu, created by humans, and two warring human factions wiping each other out based on conflicting ideologies for the survival of the human race. Even on the brink of extinction, humans use all the remaining firepower to kill each other.

The ape Spear's ear and nasal piercing, and white paint, are a reference to African tribal warriors.

This is the second "Planet of the Apes" film that Matt Reeves directed. The first being Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).

Behind the scenes look reveal Terry Notary as a stunt double for Alessandro Juliani (Spear).

As soldiers plan to attack Caesar's wooded base, note four different phrases you see on their helmets: 1) "Monkey Killer" 2) "Bedtime For Bonzo" 3) Endangered Species and 4) "The only good ape is a dead one."

The unit insignias seen on the soldiers were from 2nd infantry division and 17th fires brigade both are units at "JBLM (Joint Base Lewis McCord). A truck also had JBLM" written on the roof.

When Caesar, Luca, and Winter walk inside the trench to confront the soldiers, one of Caesar's apes, Spear, is seen wearing a tooth earring of an unknown animal and has a small sharp bone on his nose, just like Blue Eyes' wife, Lake.

Although the group of apes that followed Koba were never mentioned by name in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the novelization officially calls these apes "Koba's loyalists." It was also revealed that all of the soldiers from Koba's loyalists were all former members of Caesar's ape army.

Bad Ape wears a blue vest, similar to those worn in the first five movies.

The Colonel carries a Colt Combat Commander handgun.

In the novelization, many of the lines of other apes from the movie are given to Percy the orangutan. At the council meeting, Percy asks Blue Eyes what is beyond the mountains. In the movie, Cornelia is the one who asks Blue-Eyes this. At the Alpha-Omega base, Percy tells Caesar to forgive the other apes for shunning them as they have been through much. In the movie, Lake is the one who tells Caesar this.

Some speculated that Stone, one of Koba's followers, did not die in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), as a chimp is seen in this movie that looks like Stone during the scene where Rocket and the other apes see Bad Ape from the ground during the escape. A month after this movie's release, it was confirmed by co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves on Twitter, that the chimp was indeed Stone.

Expressions to motivate the troops are written all over the compound. Barracks: Be ashamed to die until you have won a victory for humanity. Tower 02: Keep fear to yourself. Share courage with others. Tower 04: To live is to suffer.

Apes that fight on McCullough's side against Caesar's apes are nicknamed "Donkey", while the humans call Caesar's apes "Kongs". Notably, the most prominent "donkey" is a gorilla with reddish-brown fur.

Winter is the second ape to be killed by Caesar, after Koba. However, unlike his killing of Koba, Caesar accidentally kills Winter.

There are plenty of allusions to The Bible, specifically Exodus. The humans enslave the apes to be construction workers and are ill-treated, due to lack of adequate food and water. Later, the apes escape and cross the desert to a new home far away from humans where they can live in peace. Caesar, like Moses, also struggles to control his darker impulses, and never quite reaches the Promised Land. James Rolfe said in his review that "It's like if you take Jesus Christ, turn Him in into an ape, and then put it in a Nazi concentration camp." Maybe also a stealth shout-out to two of Charlton Heston's best-known films. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end" is from the Book of the Revelation. Saint Andrew was crucified on an X-shaped cross, and became a martyr.

Aside from McCullough and Nova, Preacher has the most screentime of all the humans, in his first scene, he is shocked by Caesars mercy and is later visibly disgusted when the Colonel explains what happened to his son, seemingly foreshadowing that he would redeem himself and help Caesar and his apes escapes, he doesn't, as he fatally wounds Caesar with his crossbow before being blown up by Red the traitorous gorilla that performs the true redemption act.

One of the apes in Caesar's colony, Spear, has a spear with the white fur of some kind of animal tied to the tip, with the tip itself covered in dried blood.

Winter's father was one of the first in the Gorilla Guard, as confirmed in the Revelations novel.

Andy Serkis and Woody Harrelson appeared in the Star Wars film franchise. Serkis played Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, and Harrelson played Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

The way the virus shifts after killing off 99.9% of humanity towards a mutation that leaves the survivors unable to speak was an idea that originated in the original Planet of the Apes franchise where the apes used mute humans as slave labor. Co-writer Mark Bomback researched viruses and discovered details on the Spanish flu that mutated into catatonia and other non-lethal physical effects. "The humans are beginning to devolve while the apes evolve."

The wall was meant as a reveal regarding the viral mutation, "but it's interesting how that ended up having a different resonance to current events as the story continued. It was strange and entirely coincidental."

"Point of view is one of the most important things that you use in a story," Reeves says, adding that while this was a summer blockbuster whose spectacle is something different than super powers or grand action sequences. "Our spectacle is that by the end of this movie you're an ape." Viewers end up identifying with emotional beats expressed by apes.

The horses on the beach scene was shot on Vancouver Island, and they chose it because it was rainy season and expected to be gloomy. He was initially upset to find it sunny on the day of shooting, but he realized it was better than what they had planned thanks to the light and reflections in the sand.

A horn sound can be heard as Rocket stands up to face the guard he threw poop at, and it's actually Giacchino blowing into a ram's horn he acquired from the original Planet of the Apes movie. "I told you he was a Planet of the Apes fanatic."

Nova on Maurice's back, presented a challenge as Konoval is not actually the size of an orangutan. Weta stepped up and created a special backpack for the performer to wear that would add girth and support Miller.

The scene where Caesar confronts an ill Colonel as the other human army attacks features real tears from Serkis. Weta tried to recreate them via cg onto Caesar's face but were unable to capture it right, so they instead chose to lift the footage of the tear and then layer it atop their cg ape face. Serkis told Reeves that a similar thing happened on The Lord of the Rings -- Weta used some of his actual spit for Gollum's excited talking.

At 49 mins.) Bad Ape's fall was a real fall on Zahn's part, but Reeves liked it so much he kept it. "The great thing about performance capture is that in any other movie you plan out shots to such a degree that there's no spontaneity, but here because all it is is just a series of cameras we go on an exploration."

At 1hr 27 mins.) The water dumped on Caesar (and by definition on Serkis) was supposed to be warm, but the crew forgot to heat it up. Caesar/Serkis' shocked reaction is authentic as the very cold water was unexpected. They were all apologetic afterward, but Serkis said simply that it worked for the scene.

Caesar wasn't originally meant to die on camera -- the were going to pan up into the sky and then have his eyes superimposed onto the screen -- but Reeves suggested Serkis do a take where simply lets go, "and the way that Karen played it as Andy was passing was just so heartbreaking, and everybody just fell silent."

The script didn't have Maurice speaking verbally at the end, but while they were shooting the final scene of Caesar's impending death after getting his apes to the promised land Reeves and Konoval both realized it needed to happen.

When Blue Eyes and Rocket come back from the village, Lake runs to Blue Eyes and hug. While they hug you can see that Lake has long hair, earrings of some kind, and has a necklace with some kind of animal tooth.

This is the third installment in the newly rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise.

Although the character's name is officially "Bad Ape", this not technically his name. "Bad Ape" is just the derogatory name that the humans gave him repeatedly, thus over time he mistakenly began to believe that his name was indeed "Bad Ape".

The teaser trailer debuted at New York Comic Con on October 6, 2016.

During the opening scene, one of the Alpha-Omega soldiers has the words Bedtime for Bonzo written on his helmet.

Red blows Preacher up with a Sage Control Ordnance Deuce.

Caesar (Andy Serkis) uses a stainless Winchester Model 1912 as his main weapon for most of the film. Luca (Michael Adamthwaite) keeps a stainless Remington Model 1100 with a sawed-off barrel and stock in one of his horse's saddlebags in the film. When Bad Ape steals the horse, he uses the shotgun to fire at Caesar, and his companions as they give chase before giving it back to them when cornered. Rockets (Terry Notary), main weapon is a Remington ACR-E he also uses a M4A1 carbine which he steals from an Alpha Omega soldier. Maurice (Karin Konoval) is the only ape to not use a firearm.

Preachers crossbow is a Parker Hurricane XXT Crossbow during the opening battle in the Muir Woods before losing it when he is captured by the apes, he later uses a Parker Blackhawk Crossbow which he fatally wounds Caesar with.

Unlike the other gorillas from the Ape Colony, Red has red colored fur from his head extending to his shoulders and upper back. This may be the reason why he is named Red.

"Performance capture is just a technology that records performance," Matt Reeves says in regard to Andy Serkis being labeled a brilliant mo-cap artist as opposed to a great actor.

Caesar demonstrates empathy with both apes and humans through the trilogy, but the goal with War was for him to understand Koba's pain in Dawn that led him to attack the humans. "For the first time, Caesar would be in danger of losing his empathy."

Reeves used a technodolly for the cave assault scene -- a piece of equipment he wished he had on Dawn -- and it enabled him to shoot scenes with Serkis (in his mo-cap getup) and the "play the shot back" while adding new elements.

The code name for the film during production was, 'The Hidden Fortress'.

Reeves discovered on Let Me In, that composer Michael Giacchino was also a huge Planet of the Apes fan, so was the first person Reeves called when he was hired to direct Dawn.

The filmmakers' kids played the young apes in the film (as they did in Dawn). Performer Terry Notary (The Square) actually trained his kids to "quadruped" and move like apes.

They spent "over a year" in post-production working to make the apes -- particularly their expressive faces -- look and feel as perfect as possible.

At 43 mins.) The shot of Bad Ape is the only time Zahn appears onscreen without the mo-cap gear. It's a shot from behind, and he's wearing a big, hooded winter coat, but it's him.

They originally had the Jimi Hendrix version of the National Anthem play during the scene where the humans put the apes to work on the wall, but they weren't able to secure the rights.

The score playing as Caesar is pulled from his cage to be put to work features a "spur-like" sound that comes from an instrument designed by one of Giacchino's sons. The composer apparently likes to include his kids in his compositions, and this "little piece of metal that has some nuts and things on it that shake and have a huge reverb" added a western tinge to this showdown scene.

The film was shown to primatologists and were told that their apes displayed a surprising degree of realism in their behavior. Karin Konoval's performance as Maurice the orangutan was especially noteworthy to them.

The big tanker explosion at the end was felt in Vancouver and landed the production in the news as people were concerned as to what the tremors were from.

Many of the snow-set scenes were shot in real snowy conditions. It required not only special attention from the digital wizards at Weta but also for the performers to wear wet suits beneath their mo-cap gear. "I could look like the Michelin Man."

All of the horse shots during the Bad Ape chase were done using real horses and stunt riders except for the one of Caesar riding up the ridge, which is entirely cg.

Reeves doesn't mention why the faces of the Northern Army are never shown. While watching for the first time I assumed they would be revealed to be apes as a twist of sorts -- apes up north are even more advanced and had been playing the Colonel all along -- but that's not the case. They were just humans dressed for cold weather.

Weta designed a new rendering program "that enables them to grow forests and to have the trees have that natural variation." This was one of the first applications of the software.

The technology behind performance capture "can only capture about a dozen apes at a time, there's so much data that the computers have to hold on the movement of just twelve people." Larger scenes required a focus on the performers with small pockets of extras in the background that would be adjusted and blended in post.

The giant "X"s that the humans use to tie up the apes outside their camp are the same design as the "X"s used as markers to The Forbidden Zone in Planet of the Apes (1968).

The ending of the film contains references to the canon of the first five movies. Before Caesar dies, Maurice (an orangutan) promises that he will tell Caesar's story to his surviving son. In the first five movies, the legacy of Caesar after his death is preserved by an orangutan known as "The Lawgiver", played by John Huston in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), and afterward, the orangutans become the learned politicians and religious leaders of ape society, revering the memory of The Lawgiver in statues after Caesar has been forgotten. The plot of Planet of the Apes (1968) hinges on the orangutans having taught apes a false history of the world and erasing knowledge that humankind was once the dominant species of Earth.

A child's doll plays a significant role in driving the plot forward, as it did in Planet of the Apes (1968). In the 1968 film, Taylor finds a talking doll in the excavation and holds it up as proof that humans used to be able to speak. In this movie, the doll lacks facial features (suggesting muteness), and handling the doll transmits the virus which causes muteness.

With Caesar dying in the presence of Maurice, it can be assumed that Maurice would take his place as ruler of the apes. This is in line with the first five movies, as the orangatans seem to hold all of the political power in the far future, with Dr. Zaius being the most prominent member of said government. Dr. Zaius also happened to be portrayed by Maurice Evans, for which the character of Maurice was named.

Rocket and Maurice are the only apes to survive the events of the trilogy. Though, if the franchise is continued, it is likely that Andy Serkis will return to play the son of Ceaser, Cornelius, much like Roddy Mcdowall in the first five movies.

In the DVD commentary, co-Writer and Director Matt Reeves revealed that the filming of Caesar's final scene where he says goodbye to Maurice before he dies was extremely emotional for everybody involved, and that during filming, "pretty much everyone on the set" was weeping openly at the deeply touching acting of Andy Serkis and Karin Konoval (as Maurice). The scene was especially heartbreaking and emotional for Serkis and Reeves, as Serkis' mother had died during filming, and Reeves' father died on the last days of shooting.

The final shot of the film was supposed to originally have been Caesar's eyes closing for the last time as he dies, than a cut to black. After discussing the scene with Andy Serkis, Matt Reeves and Serkis decided the audience needed to see Caesar actually die, with Maurice stroking his leg to comfort him as he died. In addition, Maurice's final speech was originally written as sign language, but while filming, Matt Reeves decided it would add emotional resonance to the scene if Maurice spoke the words, as it would be the first time in the trilogy that his character talked.

Matt Reeves stated that Malcolm (Jason Clarke) would not return because he was killed by The Colonel.

It is implied at the end that Maurice the orangutan will become the "Lawgiver" character shown in the first five movies.

The final scene of the film shows the apes at Mount Saint Helens and Spirit Lake. One of the most popular tourist attractions in that area is a two and a half-mile-long lava tube called the Ape Cave. Contrary to what may be thought, this is not the same location as the crash site of the Icarus in Planet of the Apes (1968), which was filmed at Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border.

Every installment in the new Planet of the Apes franchise has had a unique human protagonist, who does not feature in any of the other films. Will (James Franco) from Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) was supposedly killed by the Simian Flu, and only made a cameo appearance on a camcorder in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Malcolm (Jason Clarke) from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) makes no appearance in this movie, which introduces Nova (Amiah Miller), the mute girl found by the apes. Malcom, however, is the first human protagonist from the previous entry to be killed by the main antagonist of the next film in the franchise. His character was killed by The Colonel before the events of this film.

The final shot shows the apes settling in a desert area next to a large lake, with the camera tilting upward towards the sky. This could be a subtle allusion to Planet of the Apes (1968), where a crew of human astronauts crash-land from space into a similar desert lake.

Symbolically, Maurice is the first ape that Caesar ever communicated with in sign language. He was also the last ape he communicated with in English at the time of his death.

Caesar names his second son Cornelius, the same as his character did in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) (after his father); the Alpha and Omega is a call back to the name of the nuclear weapon in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970).

Luca is Buck's successor as Caesar's fourth-in-command and the leader of the gorillas. Coincidentally, Luca's death was similar to Buck's dying scene from Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), as they both protected Caesar by sacrificing themselves.

The apes who are left to die by the perimeter of the northern base on wooden "X"s mirror the perimeter in Planet of the Apes (1968) that outlines "The Forbidden Zone".

The ultimate outcome of this movie can possibly be discerned from the opening 20th Century Fox fanfare: instead of the usual orchestral strings that are usually heard, the viewer hears, instead, a slightly atonal fanfare which is very similar to Jerry Goldsmith's atonal score to Planet of the Apes (1968). It consists of only drums and horns, but no strings.

The film contains a lot of references to the Bible. Ceasar, being the apes savior is at one point crucified on a X shape, known as a St. Andrew's cross, and is given a drink in a disrespectful fashion reminiscent of the crucifixion of Jesus. There are also parallels to the story of Moses, as Caesar frees the apes from being slaves, guides them to a new "promised land", but dies before entering it.

At the end of Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), the camera comes in on a close-up of the face of the Caesar statue and a single tear rolls from the statue's left eye. At the end of this film, there is a close-up of Caesar's face on the verge of his own death, and a single tear rolls from his left eye.

At one point, a disgusted Caesar asks Red what is even left of him to save, foreshadowing the final battle, as Red redeems himself and sacrifices himself to save Caesar's life.

After Caesar dies, the camera rises to the sky. If you look very closely at the right side of the clouds, you can see what appears to be an ape's face looking down. It is a safe assumption that this is supposed to represent Caesar looking down on the apes, smiling. This is punctuated by a glint in the face's left eye, caused by a strategically placed lense flare.

Stone is the only one of Koba's followers known to survive at the end of this movie.

Maurice's promise to the dying Caesar is nearly identical to the promise made by Varinia to the crucified Spartacus.

The Colonel tells Caesar when they first meet that he hopes Caesar doesn't come to regret sparing Preacher's life, as he's a very good shot with his crossbow. Preacher gives Caesar his fatal wound with that crossbow.

After Caesar dies, before the scene cuts to the sky, if you watch closely, you can see two apes to the left notice Caesar's death, followed by others all over, approaching possibly to grieve.

Winter is a rare albino gorilla, rather than with the typically brown or black fur. Due to his white fur, the Alpha-Omega soldiers had to use black ink for the "donkey" tattoo on his back.