With Buck's assistance, Caesar gains dominance over the other apes by intimidating the sanctuary's alpha chimp. Caesar escapes from his cell and frees a gorilla called Buck kept in solitary confinement. Caesar witnesses the confrontation and attacks Hunsiker, prompting authorities to place him in a primate shelter run by John Landon ( Brian Cox), where he is treated cruelly by the other apes and the chief guard, Landon's son Dodge ( Tom Felton). Confused, he attempts to drive Hunsiker's car, and damages it, angering Hunsiker. At first, his father's condition improves, but eventually his dementia returns. Caesar becomes more aware of his biological identity and begins to view himself as different from his human family.Ī desperate Will tests a sample of his cure on his father. When Caesar questions his identity, Will tells him that his mother was given a drug and that the reason for his intelligence is that the drug affected him while still in the womb. Will begins to take Caesar on excursions to the redwood forest at Muir Woods National Monument, but after seeing a family's German shepherd, Caesar asks if he is a pet. One day, after he frightens the children of their neighbor, Douglas Hunsiker ( David Hewlett), and receives a cut on his leg, Will takes him to the San Francisco Zoo where primatologist Caroline Aranha ( Freida Pinto) treats his injury. Will's father Charles ( John Lithgow), who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, names the baby chimp "Caesar." Caesar ( Andy Serkis) has inherited his mother's high intelligence and develops quickly. Unable to bring himself to kill the baby chimp, Robert gives him to Will, who takes him home to raise. When Will's boss Steven Jacobs ( David Oyelowo) subsequently orders chimp handler Robert Franklin ( Tyler Labine) to euthanize the remaining test chimpanzees Franklin discovers the chimp had given birth and was only protecting her baby.
She later goes on a rampage which is seen as a side effect of the drug. The drug, a modified virus, mutates a chimpanzee, giving her a human level of intelligence. Will Rodman ( James Franco) is a scientist at biotechnology company Gen-Sys who has been trying to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease and is testing a new gene therapy drug on chimpanzees.
Written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, it is 20th Century Fox's reboot of the Planet of the Apes series, intended to act as an origin story for a new series of films. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 American science fiction film directed by Rupert Wyatt and starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, and Andy Serkis.