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Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects<\/a> present\u00a0 34 Things We Learned from Matt Reeves\u2019 \u2018War for the Planet of the Apes<\/em>\u2019 Commentary<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 12.<\/strong> The \u201cdonkey\u201d apes used by the humans are named not because they\u2019re being used as animal workers (like I assumed) but as a reference to Donkey Kong.<\/p>\n 15.<\/strong> The way the virus shifts after killing off 99.9% of humanity towards a mutation that leaves the survivors unable to speak was an idea that originated in the original Planet of the Apes franchise where the apes used mute humans as slave labor. Co-writer Mark Bomback researched viruses and discovered details on the Spanish flu that mutated into catatonia and other non-lethal physical effects. \u201cThe humans are beginning to devolve while the apes evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n 20.<\/strong> The Colonel\u2019s (Woody Harrelson) greeting to Caesar includes a whole Wellington\/Napoleon reference that was added by the actor himself. Reeves thought it wouldn\u2019t work seeing as he\u2019s speaking to an ape, so Harrelson added the \u201cyou\u2019re probably not much of a reader\u201d line. It was also his suggestion to shoot an ape early on to spur Caesar and the apes back to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present\u00a0 34 Things We Learned from Matt Reeves\u2019 \u2018War for the Planet of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19028,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions\/19028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}