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The concept was to watch two films a
day that represented different tones they
were going for in the writing, and usually
out of those screenings they would find
one or two ideas to build on. "Different
movies for different reasons," Bomback
says. "And we kept the studio at bay
until we felt that we could really define
what we were doing, because they were
understandably concerned about what this
next film could be."

Reeves, who next will be directing Ben
Affleck in The Batman, elaborates, "When
Mark and I sat down to try and take this to
a different place, to push it further, we knew
that the war was going to begin; the war
that Koba had started that could not be put
back into the bottle. But it was important
that we took Caesar to a new place and to
new extremes, and to do that, I wanted to
make it truly a Caesar, or ape, point-of-view
movie. We watched a lot of war movies

■ PULL THE
STRING!: Simian
bowmen let fly in
the new Planet of
the Apes movie.

and wanted this to be a war movie in an
ambitious sense, which was that while the
landscape was about this grand scale war,
it was about the character interaction in
the forefront that was going to resonate
emotionally and thematically."
The breakthrough for the duo came from
a moment in Dawn when Caesar said to his
son, Blue Eyes, that he always held apes in
higher regard than humans, but had come
to realize - thanks to the actions of Koba -

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