The three have clearly established a comfortable rapport.
Does that ever get any easier after doing multiple movies in the franchise or is it still nerve-wracking?
Dylan Clark:Its a little bit of both.
Matt Reeves:The thing is were incredibly excited.
And that movie is incredibly engaging; its what drives the emotion of all these films.
And youll see how the emotion is coming through, and youll see its all from the actors.
DC:Hence a big ball of excitement and terror all in one.
What does that mean to you and has it changed over the years?
And I wish I could have said then that I knew what he was doing, but I didnt.
And onRise, I went intoRisereally not understanding the technology at all.
And so, for me, I love making movies.
I feel so blessed.
Ive loved this journey, its incredible!
Andy Serkis:Exactly, I was thinking about that.
[Laughs] I mean, this is it!
Working with people you adore and love.
This is what you have done.
And thank God for that.
Matt, I know the last movie ended in a place where it seemed likely the story would continue.
MR:It definitely evolved.
So itsPlanet of the Apes.
We already know the ending.
Theres no mystery in that!
It becomes Planet of the Apes.
So its not about what is at the end; its about how did we get there?
And that enabled something that was totally fresh, which was an ape-point-of-view movie.
I had no idea.
What does that mean?
We almost think of it like a biblical epic, this story.
We knew that going in, but thehows, we didnt know.
AS:Ill answer the last part first, which is the motion-capture of it all hasnt changed.
Obviously, the ape losses propel Andy in a certain direction for revenge.
But inside, hes wrestling with this thing that carried over from the last one.
And we felt that Caesar would be haunted by what he did to Koba.
So in a way, Caesar feels a burden of the war as if its partly his fault.
Its very socially conscious.
The last film dealt with places in the world where peace remains elusive.
This one is an all-out war, which is almost a different genre unto itself.
Could you talk about how that opens up some of the issues up for this world?
This is all about the gray areas; its really about the nature.
And the big spectacle in our story?
But its not like were trying to construct it from the outside in.
Is this movie influenced at all byBattle for the Planet of the Apes?
MR:Because its a battle?
I came in so late, and we just jumped in.
And people were like, Oh, youre doingBattle, right?
I was like, Ah, were we doingBattle?
I had no idea.
We watchedBattle, and we were like, They kind of didBattle.
It was really weird.
We didnt do anything at all like that in this one.
Its really like a big grand epic, biblical story.
Its about Caesar and how he becomes this key figure.
I dont think thats been done in any of theApesfilms.
This is really a different thing.
It wasnt our intent inDawn, and for sure it wasnt in this.
Thank you for doing this today.
War for the Planet of the Apesopens July 14, 2017.
