While we wait for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to be released on the big screen, the director of the film, Wes Ball, is already revealing his plans for the home entertainment release.
In an interview with Ape Nation, the Ball revealed that the film’s Blu-ray will feature a copy of the entire movie without any of the CGI. This will give fans the ability to see the actors’ performances in the mo-cap suits pre-VFX.
The filmmaker revealed: “I’m doing a little thing for the DVD where you can watch the movie – the entire movie – with the raw dailies.”
He said: “I’m working on that, where you’ll be able to watch and see both the final [cut] and the raw dailies. You can see how close they get, what they do, and how they stitch everything together. It’s amazing, and you can just sit there and enjoy it.”
Ball added: “I’ll do some commentary over it with Erik [Winquist], our VFX [supervisor]. I think it’s gonna be great. For geeks like us, it’s gonna be a first. They’ve never seen this kind of thing.”
Ball continued: “Some of the hardest stuff in VFX is how you get CG characters to interact with others. So we have a human girl hugging a CG ape and it’s like, ‘How do you do that?'”
I love that the director is doing this! I’ve always thought it would be cool to watch a full movie like this with all of the VFX work stripped away so that we can watch the actors doing their thing and Ball is doing it! That’s so cool!
The movie is set “several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows.
“As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.”
The cast includes Owen Teague (It), Freya Allen (The Witcher), and Peter Macon (The Orville). The script for the film comes from Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), and Patrick Aison (Prey).
It also co-stars Travis Jeffery (Unbroken), Neil Sandilands (Sweet Tooth), Sara Wiseman (One Of Us Is Lying), Ras-Samuel Welda’abzgi (The Clearing), Lydia Peckham (Cowboy Bebop), and Kevin Durand.
