The third chapter of the Planet of the Apes franchise takes place two years after the last movie -Dawn- ended. This time, Caesar and his apes will have to battle the army of the human bloody leader, the Colonel, to decide the fate of the planet.
Under all these layers of visual effects you can find actor Andy Serkis (Gollum from The Hobbit) as Caesar, and Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games, Zombieland) as the evil Colonel.
War for the Planet of the Apes was filmed basically around Vancouver, in British Columbia and Alberta (Canada). Also some scenes were filmed in Washington state and California. Here is a spoiler-free compilation (only the post, don't read the comments if you haven't watch the film yet!) of the most relevant sets and filming locations for the movie:
The scene on the beach, evoking the end of the 1968 original film
Planet of the Apes, was filmed at Long Beach in Vancouver Island.
Image courtesy of Sony Pictures and Alexander Danling
A huge crew landed on Vancouver island's West coast for several shoots in the area. The movie was filming around Tofino and Ucluelet towns, including Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, First Nations land and some private properties.
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The production built massive sets, like the Colonel compound and Ape prison, on Triangle Road at South Richmond.
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The Tower Rock Armoury set from another point of view. In the movie, this human military base is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains (California).
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The interiors for the snowy abandoned ski lodge were also built in a studio.
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From outside, we are not sure if this building exists or if it's just pure CGI. However, it could be inspired by the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta (pictured below), and the exteriors used for the hotel from
The Shining, the Timberline Lodge in Oregon.
Image by Norman Maddeaux
A set was built near the ski resort at Mount Seymour.
Image by Tim Gage
Also segments of the movie were filmed in the mountains of Kananaskis (probably at Fortress Mountain Resort), one of the locations where
The Revenant was filmed.
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The passages leading to the hidden-fortress are the Othello tunnels in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park.
Image courtesy of Sony Pictures and Jeroen van Luin
According to an
interview with producer Dylan Clark, the waterfall is basically a CGI creation, using footage from Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park, Maple Ridge.
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The end of the movie was filmed at Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake, in Washington State. Some shots of the desert were filmed in several locations in California.
Image by Barry Maas
The production made extensive use of keyframe animation technology to film the apes. In this caption, actors are running through the studio, while the software transforms the movement into a virtual world in real time.
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