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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (previously titled Rise of the Apes) is a 2011 American science fiction drama film directed by Rupert Wyatt, starring James Franco and Andy Serkis. It is a reboot of the Planet of the Apes series. It is intended to act as a foundation with its own origin story for a new film series. Its premise is similar to the fourth film in the original series, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), but it is not a direct remake in that it does not fit into that series' continuity. It was released in the United States, Canada, and India on August 5, 2011. The film received positive reviews and became a box office success.

Three chimpanzees are captured in an Africa jungle from their troop by poachers and shipped to San Francisco. Will Rodman (James Franco) is a scientist at pharmaceutic company Gen-Sys who has been trying to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease by testing a genetically engineered gene therapy on 12 chimps. The drug mutates the chimpanzees, giving them a human level of intelligence. The most successful subject is a female chimp named Bright Eyes (Terry Notary) goes on a rampage because she believes her baby, to whom she secretly gave birth, is threatened; she is killed while disrupting the board meeting where Will is presenting the cure. Will's boss Steven Jacobs (David Oyelowo) orders chimp handler Robert Franklin (Tyler Labine) to put all the test chimpanzees down. Franklin cannot bring himself to kill the baby chimp and instead gives him to Will.

Will's father Charles (John Lithgow), who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, names him Caesar (Andy Serkis) and Will raises him in his house. Caesar has genetically inherited his mother's high intelligence and learns and develops quickly. After three years, Caesar has outgrown his surroundings. One day, after frightening their neighbor Hunsiker's children and earning a cut on his leg in the process, Will takes Caesar to the San Francisco Zoo where primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto) treats his injuries and is impressed by how Will has taught Caesar to communicate through sign language. When she suggests that Caesar needs more open space, Will begins to frequently take Caesar to the redwood forest at Muir Woods National Monument, but after an encounter with a family's German shepherd, his intelligence begins to sour him to his status as a human "pet".

Five years later, Will and Caroline have begun a relationship. When Caesar questions his identity, Will takes him and Caroline outside of Gen-Sys and tells Caesar that his mother and eleven others chimps were tested on and that the reason for Caesar's "human-like" intelligence was that he had inherited the drug while still in the womb. Caroline then tries to convince Will that what he had tampered with could have grave consequences. Caesar begins to realize his biological identity and view himself as different from his human family.

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