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Rupert Wyatt Talks Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
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Friday, 15 April 2011 12:44 |
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Director Rupert Wyatt sat down with First Showing and talked about the upcoming Apes prequel.
He had the following to say about how it compares to its predecessors:
“The original Planet of the Apes was made in 1968, that’s over 40 years ago. We’re telling a story that has never been told before in many ways, which is a real-world contemporary narrative set in 2011 about how the apes started the revolution. Now I know there has been a different take on how that happens with the earlier films, but this is actually setting up perhaps a more scientific approach to why that happened.”
The director also cited Conquest of the Planet of the Apes as being “closest” in design to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, saying that his approach with the prequel is similar to Christopher Nolan’s with Batman Begins:
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