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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- ReferenceThe Icarus launches and vanishes
TV and newspaper reports cover the manned Icarus mission, which is later declared lost in space. Icarus is the name of Taylor's ship in the 1968 film.
source ↗ - ReferenceA toy Statue of Liberty
Caesar puts together a small toy Statue of Liberty at Will's house. It's a nod to the original series.
source ↗ - ReferenceDodge Landon and Heston's line
Keeper Dodge Landon's name combines two astronauts from the 1968 film. He's also the one who gets Taylor's most famous line: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
source ↗ - CameoCharlton Heston on TV
Charlton Heston, the original Taylor, shows up on a TV in the background, in a clip from The Agony and the Ecstasy.
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- ReferenceApe not kill ape
Caesar's law that ape shall not kill ape comes from the original film series. Here it becomes the heart of the split with Koba.
source ↗ - ReferenceGoldsmith hidden in the score
Michael Giacchino worked nods to Jerry Goldsmith's 1968 score and Danny Elfman's 2001 score into his music.
source ↗ - CameoJames Franco in an old video
Will shows up in a home video with baby Caesar. It's unused footage from Rise, and Franco goes uncredited.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFrom Canadian forest to abandoned park
The apes' forest was shot on Vancouver Island, Canada. Part of the ruined city was filmed in New Orleans, including an abandoned Six Flags park.
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- ReferenceThe Alpha-Omega name
The Colonel's militia is called Alpha-Omega. The Greek letters come from the bomb marked alpha and omega in the original series.
source ↗ - ReferenceA girl named Nova
Maurice names the mute girl Nova. It's the name of the woman who doesn't speak in the 1968 film.
source ↗ - ReferenceDonkeys and Donkey Kong
The apes who serve the humans are called "donkeys." The nickname nods to Donkey Kong and to their job as pack mules.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe Colonel and Apocalypse Now
Matt Reeves compared the Colonel to Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. His isolated army echoes the one in Coppola's film too.
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- ReferenceWe shall call her Nova
Raka names the human Nova, just like in 1968. Then he admits they call all humans that and he doesn't know why. Must be something from Caesar's time.
source ↗ - ReferenceX-shaped scarecrows
Wooden X-shaped structures warn travelers to turn back, like the ones the astronauts find in the 1968 film.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe human hunt
Apes on horseback chase humans with nets, the same kind of hunt that captures Taylor in the original film.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNoa learned from Bentley
Owen Teague studied chimps at the Center for Great Apes in Florida. The curiosity of one of them, Bentley, shaped Noa.
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- Behind the scenesThe ending came from Rod Serling
Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, wrote the first script outline. Almost everything changed, but his twist ending stayed.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe three monkeys on the bench
The judges striking the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil pose was improvised on set by director Franklin J. Schaffner. Test-screening reactions kept it in.
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- Behind the scenesHeston's condition
Charlton Heston agreed to return only if Taylor died and his fee went to charity. That's why he vanishes early and Brent takes over.
source ↗ - ReferenceA hymn to the bomb
The mutants' hymn is the Christian song "All Things Bright and Beautiful," rewritten to praise the bomb.
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- Behind the scenes"Apes exist, sequel required"
After the previous film's ending, producer Arthur P. Jacobs sent writer Paul Dehn a telegram: "Apes exist, Sequel required." Time travel was the way out.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSal Mineo and the makeup
Sal Mineo found the ape makeup uncomfortable, so the script was changed to kill off Dr. Milo earlier.
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- Behind the scenesThe future city is Century City
The 1991 city was shot in Century City, Los Angeles, a former Fox backlot full of modernist buildings.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe ending got softened
The original ending was much darker. After poor test screenings, it was reworked in the edit with new lines dubbed by Roddy McDowall. The extended cut restores it.
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- CameoJohn Huston as an orangutan
The Lawgiver, the orangutan who narrates the story, is director John Huston under the makeup.
source ↗ - CameoPaul Williams is Virgil
Virgil, Caesar's orangutan adviser, is played by songwriter Paul Williams.
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- CameoHeston switches sides
Charlton Heston, the 1968 Taylor, appears uncredited as an ape: Zaius, Thade's dying father.
source ↗ - CameoThe original Nova in the cart
Linda Harrison, Nova in the 1968 and 1970 films, has an uncredited cameo as the woman in the cart.
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Timeline
when each title takes placeCaesar's saga and its heirs
2011
Rise of the Planet of the ApesCaesar, the chimp who learns to think
10 years after Rise
Dawn of the Planet of the ApesApes and humans in a fragile truce
2 years after Dawn
War for the Planet of the ApesCaesar vs. the Colonel
generations after Caesar
Kingdom of the Planet of the ApesNoa and a new ape kingdom
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