New WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Featuette Focuses on Weta's Stunning Visual Effects Work

20th Century Fox has released a fantastic new featurette for director Matt Reeves' War for the Planet of the Apes. It offers us a cool and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the incredible visual effects work that is being done for the film by WETA. 

I love seeing the process of how visual effects are done for films. There's no doubt that this film is going to look amazing in that aspect, but I've been hearing the film as a whole is freakin' spectacular and that it delivers on all levels of great filmmaking.

In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter in the rebooted take on the enduring science fiction franchise, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel (Woody Harrelson). After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

The film was directed b  Matt Reeves and also stars Steve Zahn (Dallas Buyers Club, Captain Fantastic), Terry Notary (Kong: Skull Island, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and Karin Konoval (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).

War for the Planet of the Apes opens in theaters on July 14th.

Explore the groundbreaking technology behind #WarForThePlanet in this new clip from War for the Planet of the Apes. In theaters July 14. Caesar and his band of Simian brothers discover an unknown, newly evolved ape named "Bad Ape" (Steve Zahn) - an escapee from a zoo.