"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" director Matt Reeves was recently asked by the Chinese news site site M Time (via Bad Ass Digest) about the fate of one of the characters - the ape villain Koba (Toby Kebbell). We saw him fall in the climactic showdown with Caesar (Andy Serkis), but did he actually die?
Reeves said:
"You're one of the few people to ever mention that. That's pretty funny. Because I struggled with... I thought that Toby Kebbell gave such an incredible performance. And I thought he was so powerful and I thought: 'God, you don't find a villain who has got that great a story.' Because as you said, he was not really formed as a villain; he's really a tragic figure. And I thought: 'God, he's amazing; let's leave open the possibility. Let's create the door of a possibility if we find a story that becomes worth telling, that we can go down that path again because I thought the vein was so rich.'"
In fact, he admits that he considered making it much clearer that Koba had survived:
"I actually had been working on a version where you could actually see him survive and I realized that it wasn't...it was Caesar's movie, and it was undercutting the whole idea. It sort of felt cheap. And so as we were mixing, I was like: 'I want to just leave one tiny Easter Egg right at the end. I want to leave open the door just the tiniest crack.'"
That crack was the post-credits blank scene where faint ape-like sounds can be heard moving around amidst all the debris.
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