Second trailer for Fox’s ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ gets wild!

PCN posted the original teaser trailer for ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ a few months ago, but now Fox has released a longer trailer that focuses on Caesar and the eventual revolution staged by he and his simian counterparts.

Although it’s obviously borrowing from 1970′s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes–sans the civil rights angle of that picture– this new version looks intriguing. I’m sold, based on the Weta FX and those scenes of the apes crowded on rooftops carrying some form of makeshift weaponry.

The big question for the film comes down to the script. Based on this trailer, Caesar releases the toxin that increases ape and chimpanzee intelligence into the air. Still, even excessive smarts aren’t going to help a much smaller population without the benefit of technological advancement against the entire human race.

I’m guessing that another toxin–or perhaps a byproduct of ‘the cure’– will assist in decimating the human beings. If the film can find the right balance between the fantasy of the scenario and the speculative heart of the story itself, this could be a summer sleeper hit. 

Either way, this one looks a cut above Tim Burton’s tepid 2001 Planet of the Apes ‘reimagining’.  Rise of the Planet of the Apes will release on August 5th.