Tom Felton (“Harry Potter’s” Draco Malfoy) has joined the cast of 20th Century Fox’s Caesar: Rise of the Apes. He’ll play Brian Cox’s son, co-owner of an ape facility.
James Franco, John Lithgow and Freida Pinto star in the Rupert Wyatt-directed sci-fi action adventure. Andy Serkis will do motion capture for the Caesar character.
Effects house Weta Digital employing certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for Avatar will render, for the first time ever in the film series, photo-realistic apes rather than costumed actors.
Set in present day San Francisco, Caesar: Rise of the Apes is a reality-based cautionary tale, a science fiction/science fact blend, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
The film is scheduled for a June 24, 2011 release.
