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War for the Planet of the Apes
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
2017 · Directed by Matt Reeves · 140 min · Drama · Science Fiction · War · Screenplay in the scene database · 20 frames
Tagline
For freedom. For family. For the planet.
Plot
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the attack and kill all but four humans and a donkey gorilla named Red. Caesar releases the human captives as a peacekeeping gesture, but Red escapes after attacking Winter, an albino gorilla in Caesar's tribe. Caesar's young son Blue Eyes and Rocket return from a scouting expedition to report they have found an oasis that could serve as a safer home. That night, the Colonel of Alpha-Omega leads a team to raid the colony and kills Cornelia and Blue Eyes, mistaking the latter for Caesar. Cornelius, Caesar's younger son, manages to survive the attack by hiding while the Colonel escapes.
Caesar, followed by Rocket, Maurice, and Luca, decide to serve as decoys while the tribe journeys to the oasis. In an abandoned village, Caesar kills a human in self-defense and finds his mute daughter, whom Maurice - with Caesar's consent - takes guardianship of, giving her a rag doll. They encounter Winter, now working for Alpha-Omega after giving away their hideout, having faked the attack by Red and letting him escape, and confront him. He reveals that the Colonel is heading north to meet up with the rest of the military forces. Caesar prevents him from alerting the soldiers, but accidentally kills Winter in retribution for his wife and son. As they follow the Colonel, Caesar's group discovers several dead soldiers executed by their own troops; a fatally wounded survivor is revealed to be mute, just like the girl.
Caesar's group chases someone who has stolen one of their horses and discovers the thief is another intelligent ape, Bad Ape, who grew in isolation. He guides them to a former weapons depot-turned quarantine facility in the mountains that serves as the base for the militia. Soldiers kill Luca, and an enraged Caesar tells Maurice, Rocket, Bad Ape, and the mute girl to turn back. Caesar attempts to infiltrate the base alone, but he discovers his tribe has been captured and forced into labor there before Red catches him. Caesar deduces that the Colonel and militia are using the apes to barricade the facility to fend off the incoming military forces, which intend to attack rather than reinforce the militia.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Matt Reeves, Mark Bomback
- Cinematography: Michael Seresin
- Edited by: William Hoy, Stan Salfas
- Music: Michael Giacchino
- Production design: James Chinlund
- Produced by: Amanda Silver, Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa
Cast
- Andy Serkis as Caesar
- Woody Harrelson as The Colonel
- Karin Konoval as Maurice
- Terry Notary as Rocket
- Steve Zahn as Bad Ape
- Amiah Miller as Nova
- Ty Olsson as Red Donkey
- Michael Adamthwaite as Luca
- Toby Kebbell as Koba
- Gabriel Chavarria as Preacher
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox, TSG Entertainment, Chernin Entertainment
- Budget: $150,000,000
- Box office: $490,719,763
- Themes: suicide, civil war, escape, winter, mutation, peace, solidarity, gorilla, intelligence, dystopia
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