War for the Planet of the Apes should further challenge Notary and his fellow mo-cap performers too in that respect – what with it being an emotionally-charged war movie, above all else.
That description alone is just further proof of how much things have changed for this franchise, over the years since Burton’s Planet of the Apes movie was released in theaters.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes and its sequels are closer to being sci-fi sociopolitical parables by comparison and thus call for a more subtle portrayal of the Apes.
Before, we were kind of pushing, in the first one of this run, on Rise, we felt like we needed to push it a little bit.