The young Brit actor, best known for his role as the wicked Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, co-stars in the upcoming Caesar: Rise of the Apes, Fox's prequel to Planet of the Apes.
In a chat with the Los Angeles Times, Felton called the project "one of my favorite scripts of any I've read." The Rupert Wyatt-directed movie recalls how the apes became intelligent, speaking beings and their ultimate rise to power over humans.
Felton plays another bad guy this time, a scientist named Dodge. The actor says that the story, which is set in contemporary San Francisco, "follows this one ape as he ends up in a primate facility, a facility where my character works. Needless to say, I'm not that keen on the monkeys at my facility. I'm not the most pleasant person they've ever come across in their life. I show this one particular ape that there is a dark side to humans, and I'm not very nice. And that leads to a backlash ..."
Andy Serkis plays Caesar, who will be created digitally via performance-capture. James Franco leads a cast that also includes Freida Pinto, Brian Cox and John Lithgow. Rise of the Apes opens June 24.
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