{"id":51267,"date":"2016-12-09T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=51267"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T01:02:09","slug":"war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-official-trailer-premieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-official-trailer-premieres\/","title":{"rendered":"War for the Planet of the Apes Official Trailer Premieres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for a major 2017 release wasn&#8217;t enough, this morning (December 9) also brings us the debut of the official trailer for <em>War for the Planet of the Apes!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Making good on the potential seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/10\/06\/20th-century-fox-releases-war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-teaser-trailer\/\">the film\u2019s teaser trailer<\/a> (well, digital billboard) in October, this two-minute trailer delivers plenty of spectacular battle action and some intriguing glimpses of compelling character moments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEP1Mk6Un98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a transcript of the teaser\u2019s dialogue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>CAESAR: I did not start this war. I offered you peace. I showed you mercy. But now you are here to finish us off for good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COLONEL: All of human history has led to this moment. The irony is, we created you, and nature has been punishing us ever since. This is our last stand, and if we lose, it will be a planet of apes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, Shakespeare, it ain\u2019t. And the Colonel\u2019s name check of the franchise at the end is particularly clunky, even though Woody Harrelson gives it his best shot. But the speeches establish the central conflict, and clearly sound some themes\u2014destiny, morality, responsibility\u2014that are worthy of the greatest dramas.<\/p>\n<p>As for the visuals, I was struck by how much the opening shots of Caesar, Maurice, another ape and a young human girl (a captive? a survivor?) riding on horses along the shore evoke the closing sequence of the original <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> (1968)\u2014will these riders discover an iconic human landmark reduced to ruins, as Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison did? (Maybe even\u2014spoiler alert\u2014the Statue of Liberty?)<\/p>\n<p>The shots of human soldiers sneaking through thick jungle, as well as the firefight footage, reminded me of many a Vietnam War movie. Even if we didn\u2019t know humanity\u2019s ultimate fate in the <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> franchise, those battlefield images would lead us to suspect things will not turn out well for Homo sapiens.<\/p>\n<p>And at 35 seconds in: Is that Andy Serkis, out of his motion-capture suit, playing a scene opposite himself? Maybe not, but if I were the moviemakers, I\u2019d be tempted to do it!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not generally a big fan of post-apocalyptic science fiction, but I make an exception for the <em>Apes<\/em>. It\u2019s an epic, action-adventure morality play too entertaining to ignore.<\/p>\n<p><em>War for the Planet of the Apes<\/em> breaks out at a theater near you on July 14, 2017.<br \/>\n<em>Are you looking forward to <\/em>War for the Planet of the Apes<em>? What did you think of the trailer? Let\u2019s talk in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for a major 2017 release wasn&#8217;t enough, this morning (December 9) also brings us the debut of the official trailer for War for the Planet of the Apes! Making good on the potential seen in the film\u2019s teaser trailer (well, digital billboard) in October, this two-minute trailer delivers plenty of spectacular battle action and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[3145,112,4623,208,4624],"yst_prominent_words":[7515,36871,36875,14901,7291,37794,14425,36869,15033,6030,6692,36870],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64064,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51267"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}