Roddy McDowell was better as the doomed purser in The Poseidon Adventure than he was as the sensitive new-age simian in the original Planet of the Apes. It was the general tackiness of the original that kept me from seeing the 2001 re-make, though usually I'm a sucker for Tim Burton movies. So, when the prequel Rise of the Planet of the Apes came out not long ago, I figured I'd skip it and watch my Battlestar Gallactica DVDs instead. I may rethink that now. Over at AllThingsD, Kara Swisher spotlighted this trailer, which shows the film's CGI work.
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She wrote:Its producer, Peter Chernin, told me that a lot more of the film than it seems — including the stunning opening scenes in the wild that look like a real-life nature special — were mostly CGI, used to prep audiences for extended scenes of the apes morphing into believable rebels.Watching this, you pretty much know all the apes are animated but still, if I was an actor I'd be worried. First, no more men in monkey suits. Next, C3PO as himself... Source: AllThingsD Photo: IMDB
