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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Description: [Digital Drift 2014]
Ten years after the Burton version surfaced, spluttered and sank, this came out of seemingly nowhere, surprising everyone. Set up as an alternate prequel to the premise of the original 1968 Planet of the Apes, Rise answered the question of “How could this actually happen?”. In marketing terms it serves as a reboot, beginning its own new series which then branched off from the original five movies into its own circular arc.
One thing I found while editing this show together was that I didn’t have many clips I could use. This is, as I ca...