With James Franco hosting the Oscars and signing up for every film in sight, it’s rather got lost that he has a big budget movie coming out later this year – Rise Of The Apes – a prequel/reboot of the Planet of The Apes franchise, which concentrates on the time when scientific experiments lead to the emergence of super-smart chimps, and the onset of a war for supremacy.
The film is using motion capture, which means that unlike previous Apes movies, the movie will feature photo-realistic CGi apes, rather than men in monkey suits. However as with many first images from a film, the one above is rather dull, just showing James Franco looking like he’s at a neurology call centre. However I’m sure we’ll get to see some of the simians soon. Rise Of The Apes reaches cinemas at the end of November.