Yep, no prizes for guessing that one correctly, as Hollywood’s go-to-guy for mo-cap shenanigans will be donning the lycra suit once again. In fairness, we can’t really imagine anyone else playing this role, particularly given Serkis’ previous as King Kong.

That said, the role should give Serkis a full workout, as he’s got to convincingly condense the process of evolution in no more than a couple of hours. The film will chart Caesar’s journey in its entirety, so expect to see Serkis in full on banana-munching mode, before gradually becoming increasingly human-like in his behaviour.
 
However, whether he will talk or not is another thing entirely. Fox’s Tom Rothman has described the picture as, “a hard science-fiction film,” which is all well and good, until you get to the point where he says that, “the film won’t have talking monkeys and will not end with chimps taking over the earth.”
 
What? No chimp-chat? We won’t be convinced until we hear it from Wyatt or Serkis. The idea of a Planet Of The Apes movie without giving any of those apes the power of speech would be bold in the extreme, although if Fox want to move away from the original series, that would definitely be one way of doing it. It would certainly ask more of Serkis, although he pulled it off with Kong, so perhaps we shouldn’t rule it out…