‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Concept Art Reveals Alternate Ending
It’s a sign of the impact of the newPlanet of the Apesfilms that the two recent movies continue to be topics of conversation in a film landscape that is often all too quick to move on to the next big thing. We’re still talking aboutRise of the Planet of the Apesa couple years layer, in part because directorRupert Wyattis doing the press rounds for his new film,The Gambler, and people still have many questions about his previous film. This concept art just happens to crop up at the same time as those interviews, but it offers something that fans of the originalPlanet of the Apeswill appreciate: a view of a nixedRise of the Planet of the Apesalternate ending that calls back to the original film.
TheFilmSketchrblog [viaScreenCrush] found these images byconceptartistBrian Cunningham(Godzilla,Watchmen), along with thebasic description of the images.
These were for an excised final scene in the film, in which Caesar would have scaled a building, the nature of which wasunknownto the audience. Time passes, and we see an older Caesar, and the camera pulls back to reveal that he is viewing a ruined New York City from the vantage point of the Statue of Liberty.This sequence was clearly not shot, and the film has Caesar staying in Northern California after the San Francisco-based events of the film. That’s where the sequel,Dawn of the Planet oftheApes, was located as well. But there’s still time for the filmmakers of the inevitable third film to reference that famous Apes image of the Statue of Liberty.
