Matt Reeves' First Day of Shooting on 'War for the Planet of the Apes'

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All hail Caesar! This is awesome. Filmmaker Matt Reeves posted a must see photo to his Twitter account this weekend to commemorate the start of shooting on the next film, War of the Planet of the Apes. The shot shows a motion-capture person (the ape) approaching a horse with someone on it, on a very murky beach. Over at SlashFilm they say this beach is very reminiscent of the one from the end of the original 1968 Planet of the Apes, when they find the Statue of the Liberty. That would be a pretty obvious connection, but who knows exactly what part they’re shooting here. Could be an entirely new scene but it’s still very cool, and I’m excited more than ever to see Reeves continue this story. Filming just started on this Apes sequel. ›››

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