In an interview with Collider, promiting his new movie 127 Hours, the actor (who played Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy) was asked about his role in the prequal which is set to be released on June 24, 2011. In the movie, James Franco is set to play a scientist working on a cure for Alzheimer's by testing on apes. When test subject Caesar suddenly begins to rapidly evolve, the scientist takes him home to remove him from the cruel lab doctors. Check out what he had to say below:
"And then I found out that that’s not how they’re doing it. It’s actually all of Peter Jackson’s Weta people doing CG, that I’ll be working with Andy Serkis who played Gollum, and it was the DP from The Lord of the Rings, Andrew Lesnie. I was such a big fan of those movies and I am interested in new ways of performing and new ways of filmmaking so I thought "Why not? I will have this opportunity. Try it out."
"And when I got to do the scenes with Andy Serkis, it was actually really interesting because — and Danny (Boyle) and I have talked about this too — he plays a chimpanzee, a real chimpanzee. There’s no way we would ever get scenes that we did with a real chimpanzee. And Andy is so good at that behavior. So it’s like acting opposite a real chimpanzee with great acting instincts. It was cool. It was new, new for me."
Are you looking forward to
Rise of the Apes? I for one think that it sounds excellent and with a stellar cast that includes the brilliant James Franco, it'll definitely be one to watch in 2011! Be sure to share your thoughts in the usual place!