Director Wes Ball talked to io9 about his upcoming Planet of the Apes prequel.
While almost every animal in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was computer generated, one particular species was practical: the leeches on the bodies of the entire crew. “Everyone was just crawling with leeches and they got everywhere because you don’t feel them,” director Wes Ball told io9 last week. “We’re shooting in these fields and it’s just like infestation. And people for days were like, ‘Oh, god’ and suddenly...
io9: Apes with birds is a big part of the marketing for this movie. Where did that idea come from? Ball: Yeah, it was just this idea. I’ve talked about it before, but, apes were in the Stone Age in the previous movies. Apes are entering the Bronze Age in this movie. Cultures, different worlds, evolution, mirroring our own as a species marching through civilization. And this idea of human beings domesticating dogs man’s best friend shows their advancement, their ingenuity, all that kind of stuff.
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