{"id":8895,"date":"2010-06-30T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T23:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:46:53","slug":"serkis-going-ape-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/30\/serkis-going-ape-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Serkis Going Ape Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without a doubt, Andy Serkis is the preeminent motion-capture actor today. His work on Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings <\/strong>films proved that characters could be fully realized through the process of using human actors to drive computer created visuals, a process he further further evolved on the human side of the equation with Jackson’s King Kong<\/strong> remake.<\/p>\n

Serkis will be slipping back into a mo-cap suit for 20th Century Fox’s Planet Of The Apes<\/strong> prequel\/reboot Rise Of The Apes<\/strong>. He’ll be portraying Caesar, the genetically altered chimpanzee who is the one responsible for the events eventually leading to the future that Charlton Heston discovers in Planet Of The Apes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This should come as no big surprise as it has already been announced that most of the film’s chimpanzees and apes would be realized by WETA through CGI.<\/p>\n

At least this bit of news coming to us via twitter<\/a> is from Chris Petrikin, Fox\u2019s VP of Corporate Communications and not from an actor possibly bypassing agents and management.<\/p>\n

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Serkis joins the already cast James Franco, John Lithgow and Freida Pinto. Filming is set to begin next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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