QWhat will the next film be about?
AOn the day of the film's release, director Rupert Wyatt revealed ideas for the next film. It may take place eight years after the end of this film, showing the next generation of apes who are the offspring of the intelligent apes. These young apes would be going into war. Caesar would be leading the revolution, but Koba (the chimp who killed Steven Jacobs) would be leading troops and committing genocide. Maurice the orangutan would be Caesar's adviser. The humans would be living underground to protect themselves from the virus. This may be what "dehumanizes" them. From the sounds of it, this story would be somewhat in the vein of Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). Koba would lead troops and express his hatred towards humans like Aldo the gorilla. Maurice would be helping Caesar like Virgil the orangutan did. The humans would begin living underground, much like the humans living below San Francisco in the 1973 film. Whether they will become like the mutants in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) is currently unknown, though that's unlikely as those humans were mutated due to radiation fallout. Supposedly titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, it is scheduled for release in 2014.
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QIf an ape's vocal cords don't allow them to speak human languages, how is Caesar able to do so?
AFirst off, as this is a science-fiction movie, suspension of disbelief is pretty much mandatory. However, it's possible that his ability was given through the genetic tampering with Caesar's mother. When Caesar was born, he was advanced and evolved beyond his mother, as evidenced by his increased intelligence and cognitive ability. So it's possible Caesar is the only one who can speak English, as he's the only second-generation ape influenced by the 112/113 drugs. So until the other apes in the group start having babies, it's possible the rest can't speak. It is also possible that Caesar does not really speak, but simply mimics the sounds of words; having learned to understand spoken English, he knows the meaning of words, and can even form a short sentence. He simply has so much knowledge of human sounds that he can do a series of grunts and make them sound like a meaningful sentence, not unlike human researchers who have spent so much time observing wild animals that they can closely mimic their sounds. Actually, a chimpanzee in real life named Viki was able to vocalize the words mama, papa, cup, and up. With further pseudo-scientific genetic tampering, it would not be entirely implausible for an ape to speak with similar limitations.
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