Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Extended Interview

Caesar is dead, long live Caesar. IGN sat down with the cast & director of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes for a wide-ranging interview about their experiencing writing a new chapter in the Planet of the Apes franchise. Stars Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, and Peter Macon discuss the challenges of staying rooted in their characters while also having to believably act like apes – or in Allan’s case, being the only human onscreen for most of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ runtime. Director Wes Ball (the Maze Runner trilogy) also explains how improvisation was facilitated on the set of the performance capture-heavy movie and how the franchise deserves its first-ever Academy Award for VFX. Ball also details his plans to include a cut of the film on the Blu-ray which does not include the visual effects which transform the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ actors into their characters. And yes, of course we asked Ball about his next project: the live-action Legend of Zelda movie.