In this prequel, Will Rodman (James Franco) is a medical scientist tasked with creating a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a formula that to date has only been
tested on apes.
Not exact matches
Apes performed best
on that
test, but no birds were
tested then.
But linking HAR mutations to organismal innovations is hard, given the obvious limitations
on testing the effects of genetic changes in humans or
apes.
The time period is set to 2029 and Wahlberg plays the hero that steals a spaceship to rescue a
test space monkey and finds himself crash landed
on... you guessed it, Planet of the
Apes.
Director: Rupert Wyatt Cast: James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow, Freida Pinto, Tom Felton, Brian Cox, David Oyelowo Plot: When
testing a potential cure for Alzheimer's
on monkeys, Will Rodman (Franco) accidentally heightens the brainpower of a primate called Caesar and begins the Rise of the Planet of the
Apes.
As a child — which is assuming I've actually progressed mentally from that point, which I clearly haven't — I had freaking loads of teddies in the shape of monkeys and
apes that had pride of place
on my bed, their job being to defend me from the potential horrors that lurk within dreams and to act as unwilling
test dummies for attempts at performing wrestling moves.