For me, the big thing was to try and be aware of entering the Apes universe, but at the same time try to do something we havent quite seen yet and go along the same trajectory toward the 1968 movie, Reeves explained. The world of Rise and Dawn is so different than the 1968 movie, so the fun of that is, is to try to imagine how our world becomes the world of the original.
Unlike the reference at the end of Rise, Dawn doesnt mention the manned rocket getting lost in orbit and losing contact with Earth. But Reeves, who is signed on to direct the next Apes film, said just because theyre didnt talk about the Icarus in Dawn, doesnt mean the idea of wayward spaceship is lost, well, in space. After all, the return of the spaceship to Earth is what sets the 1968 movie in motion.
I still find it interesting that when I first got involved in Dawn, somebody asked me if it was boring knowing what the end of the story was, as long as you know that it becomes the world of the 1968 film, Reeves noted. I said that knowing that world was the most exciting part.
Thats because, Reeves explained, the stories being told through the Rise and Dawn movies dont tell you about what happened, but about how it happened.
The idea of exploring the how and the why through Caesar and future generations makes it like an epic, mythic and exciting generational Apes story to me, Reeves said. Im actually hoping that we dont get to the 1968 story too soon because theres a rich story to be told along the way, but I definitely want to get there. I think thats the part of the fun of the story, knowing that the Icarus comes back down and the astronauts return not knowing where they are, only to discover the planet that Charlton Heston did in the original. Thats in our minds as were trying to figure out the trajectory and as were trying to figure out the next story.
