Will Rodman's (James Franco) experiments on primates-performed in search of a cure for Alzheimer's disease-genetically alters Caesar, giving him advanced intelligence that enables him to incite the ape revolution. Set in modern-day San Francisco, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (opening August 5, 2011) will explain how apes come to rule the world 5000 years in the future, when the original films take place. Unlike the Apes films that came before, Rise won't rely on costumes and prosthetics to create its primates, but instead will use the groundbreaking performance-capture technology developed for Avatar. Those cameras capture his eyes and facial expressions via 52 dots painted on the actor's face. The actor, who stars as the chimp Caesar, is decked out in a gray spandex suit studded with motion-capture markers, and wears a helmet equipped with an arm that holds four tiny cameras less than a foot away from his face. Serkis hangs one-armed from the monkey bars of a jungle gym, grunting as he swings gracefully to the other side. It's late September 2010, and we are on the Vancouver, Canada, set of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the upcoming prequel to the classic Planet of the Apes franchise. Andy Serkis is monkeying around-or aping around, as the case may be.
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