After becoming a surprise hit with both audiences and critics at the end of the summer, Rise of the Planet of the Apes arrives on Blu-ray and DVD today. In the film, Caesar the hyper-intelligent chimpanzee – a motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis and the experts at Weta Digital that Fox is actively building an Oscar campaign around – goes from a happy little chimp to the leader of a full-blown simian revolution that tears through the streets of San Francisco. Well, now Caesar and his ape cohorts can tear up your living room via Blu-ray, and in order to promote the home entertainment release, 20th Century Fox recruited Australian street artist Anthony Lister to bring Caesar's invasion home to Los Angeles.
Laboring over several nights, Lister created a huge mural on Melrose Avenue, inspired by the film from director Rupert Wyatt. The image Lister conjured features a stylized Caesar with an expression of determined fury, a bunch of apes run amok, and a recreation of the film's biggest action moment, when a gorilla takes a flying leap from the Golden Gate Bridge, colliding with a Highway Patrol helicopter in the process.
Check out these images of Lister at work and the final mural itself:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
