(Source ComingSoon.net)

Gary Oldman has just revealed some pretty interesting Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes details about his character and the plot, in a recent interview with MTV, when he was promoting RoboCop.

(Source Youtube.com)

First he described his character:

“He’s the sort of designated leader if you will of this community of those that were lucky enough to survive the simian flu, the disease, and then the ensuing social uprising from it….So they’re sort of survivors, and he was a police officer, so he’s more of the kind of elected leader of this (group). And they need power and there’s a power station and some of my people go out to see if it’s operational, if it’s still out there, and then they discover that there’s a whole community of apes living there. We believed they were all completely fire-bombed and wiped out…He’s experienced a great loss, personally, and there’s only one answer for him and that’s to wipe them out. I see him as a sort of the hero of the piece.”

Then he went on to explain that director Matt Reeves plans on exploring the human element before this series flows into the timeline of the original Planet Of The Apes:

“Matt Reeves was more interested in not just keeping the franchise alive but he wanted to make it more of a human story, he wanted to explore what had happened and keep it more focused to the human side of it before the story becomes the ‘Planet of the Apes’ as we know it from the first one, from the original.”

Here’s the full plot, according to ComingSoon.net (keep in mind, the sequel takes place 10 years after Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

What do you think of Oldman’s character? Any thoughts on the plot? What about the franchise’s reboot?

Let us know below!

2/11/2014 – 1:53 pm

By James