'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' Alternate Ending Deleted Scene Detailed By Director Matt Reeves - Won't Appear On DVD/Blu-Ray Bonus Material

While Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is still in theaters doing a number on the box office, director Matt Reeves recently revealed that an alternate ending to the 2014 sequel of Rise of the Planet of the Apes was shot, but never finished in post-production. In fact, we'll never see this deleted scene, even in the bonus material of the DVD/Blu-Ray release of the film - but he did detail the cut ending in a new interview!

Speaking with SlashFilm, Reeves goes into heavy detail of the deleted scene, explaining we won't see it because the effects were not edited into the scene to make it watchable.

"[W]hat was different about the ending was that after the ending that you see in the final film, the idea was that the apes went out on a kind of exodus through the city and they gathered on the Golden Gate Bridge in order to look into the distance for the approaching warships," Reeves explained. "And I felt that it was taking us too far into the next movie. And almost starting the next movie and not letting the emotion of what had just happened, of what Caesar had just achieved and what Caesar had the price that he had paid. It wasn't letting that resonate and it wasn't ending, the final shot with again hopefully not spoiler way, but the final shot was actually in a way the very same final shot. It was actually him on top of the Golden Gate Bridge which was covered in apes, all looking out way, way into the distance and to see this really like messed up armada way in the distance showing up like really like ships in disrepair. And it moved into his eyes as he took in the uncertain future."

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