Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | Official IMAX® Interview | Experience It In IMAX®

That is not everything. This is IMAX Behind the Frame and this is a special edition where we are talking to the cast and the crew behind Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and we're going to start with our first cast member right here. That's right, that's Jasper. Let's go talk to the rest. Colin, Brad, so stoked to get to talk to you guys. Loved Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. I loved it especially in IMAX. So I'm going to start there. Why should fans experience Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in IMAX? We actually first saw the full thing. The finished movie. Yeah, on a smaller screen and then the next night we got to see 30 minutes on an IMAX screen and I'm telling you now, I'm not just saying this. We're not being fed this. We're not being fed this. This was a just just 10 times better experience. The music is pumping. It's so big that you feel like you're in the world. It's immersive when it's that size. Yeah, and the world that's been created is so stunning. It deserves to be seen, genuinely. For your own sake, do it. It is stunning to see it on a screen that size and the music and the sound design. You forget you're watching a movie. I think it's really important that you go see this film on the biggest screen that you could find because as I was watching it on IMAX, I said earlier, I want to be able to sit in the IMAX screen. It's so beautiful that I want to pause it frame by frame and look at every single vista that was created because West Ball and Weta created this world that I don't think we've ever seen anything so detailed and beautiful before. The first time I ever saw any IMAX movie was at a science museum and it was a film about the Great Barrier Reef. The stairs were very, very steep and it was almost like you were sitting in a tandem helicopter seat kind of thing. Part of the screen is almost such a feat, right? That experience as a kid, I think I was in sixth grade. It changed my relationship to film in the same way that I think that when moving pictures actually started and people went to the movies. I think that changed. Something in my brain just clicked and I will never unfeel that experience. Going to a movie like this, that is built and shot for this format and has huge, giant action scenes and stuff like that but also very, very small, detailed, nuanced moments. To see that on a screen, even like the IMAX billboard poster, see my head 50 feet tall, it does something to you. Does it make your head bigger? I didn't think my head could get any bigger but I was wrong. To experience this film that way, it'll make you feel like a little kid again. I think we should see any of these epic films on IMAX. I've had these incredible experiences with IMAX before but this film in particular, I was like, I need to see all of these temple films that I really want to see. You need to see them on the big screen. That's literally my next question for you actually. Theoretically, both of you, if you could experience any movie theoretically in IMAX, what would it be and why? First, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes but then one of my favorite movies ever, I just love the world that Mel Gibson created in Braveheart and Apocalypto. Can you imagine an IMAX? Man, I could see the Mayans when they come to the Mayans, they're painting them. Crazy. Mine would be Blade Runner 2049 because I love Blade Runner. I'm a nerd but Denis Villeneuve, the score, the world, it's just so beautiful and just sad and the rain. I would love to experience that movie that size. It's one of my favorite movies. Dave Bautista is great and Ryan Gosling obviously. All these big movies, man, I can't wait to have my own IMAX theater in my house. I would never leave. This movie really blows you away in IMAX and I say that, I mean, I feel like I'm literally in the movie right now. This is absolutely wild. This is absolutely wild but I really want to pick your brain on what were your thoughts seeing the finished product of your film on an IMAX screen? Yeah, it's fantastic because we spent a lot of time on the visuals and the sound of this movie. Sound is 50 percent of the experience, and so I hope people take the time to go experience this with people who care about the presentation of movies. You know what I mean? Great sound, great picture, and a big giant screen that lets you immerse yourself into this fantastic world that you could not otherwise visit. If you could experience, theoretically, any film in IMAX again or for the first time, what would it be and why? Again in IMAX, that requires us to have seen it. Or for the first time. Or for the first time, just theoretically. Open it up. I'd love to see Interstellar on IMAX. I saw that in IMAX and it was unbelievable. I've only seen that on a small screen and also hands in the score. I mean, I would love to experience that. I think they shot that on IMAX cameras too. Yeah, so you get the ratio difference and it's like the whole thing looks like a nature documentary. Yeah, I've got to do that. Could you talk about, as a director, your perspective of directing these actors and then seeing the full vision come to life? Not only seeing, but shepherding it from a day-to-day perspective. Could you talk about how impactful that was? Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, first you got to find these people, right? And that's something that's always fun. And then you got to turn them into apes. And that's more than just the post-production side where we just do all this incredible visual effects work. We have to, these actors have to internalize what it means to be ape. How they hold themselves differently. How they move. How they speak. How they kind of, you know, do all these little behavioral things, you know? So it's a fascinating process. They went through ape camp to learn all this stuff and took to it like a fish in water, you know what I mean? They just became apes. They walked around like normal, you know, in and out of their trailers to lunch, you know, on weekends. They're walking around like apes. It's in them, you know? And then after you make all this incredible, you know, these choices that they make as actors, and they're great actors, you know, we have all this technology around them to capture every little tiny detail of performance that they give us. And that gets all shipped out to New Zealand. And for, you know, a year and a half or so, you know, we agonize over all those little eye twitches, all those little things, all those little subconscious things that feel real. And it's put into hands of incredible artists that translate that to visual effects. These incredible images that you just almost can't believe, you know? Yeah, no, but absolutely. It's your point. I remember sitting there in the theater and forgetting that what I'm watching isn't, you know, isn't a real ape walking across the screen and just the world that you built out and everything. It's just phenomenal. Seriously. It's like a magic trick. Yeah, it is like a magic trick. Yeah, it really absolutely is. How was it seeing the pose of edification of you turning into an ape? And how was it for you getting to work with all these people and seeing the final product of what it looked like next to all of them? I'm just curious. Well, I think what was so special was that I actually, I actually, I, you would have thought it would be really weird to see them all become, be turned into apes, but it wasn't. It was genuinely everything that I saw in front of my, you know, my eyes when we were shooting that, that's there. It's them. It's entirely them. You know, even when I'm going past the billboards, I'm like, oh, there's, there's Peter, there's Owen. Yeah. Just like, it's not. And I, but I feel like that's like, I mean, it's, it's something to get out there. So people know the amount of hard work these, these guys, you know, and the fact that their work is all there. And so that it's, you know, appreciated and valued. When I look at Noah, I see my face, which is, it's weird. It's kind of surreal, but it's, but it's, it's a testament to the, to the, to Weta, you know, they're, they, they took my performance down to the tiniest little thing and translated it onto, onto Noah. And it's, it's really like, it is surreal and, and astounding to, to see that. But at the same time, it's like, oh yeah, that's just me. And it's weird. It's stunning. It's stunning. You know, getting to see your face and seeing how it's translated so well. And I've got to listen to a lot of Weta and Eric Lindquist and what they did with the work. And it's just brilliant guys. Thank you so much for your time.