However, Franklin was unable to bring himself to put the infant down and convinced a reluctant Will to take him instead, sparing the infant's life in the process. Because Bright Eyes' aggression was believed to be the effects of the ALZ-112, head of Gen-Sys, Steven Jacobs, terminated the project and ordered the apes in the facility's possession, to be euthanized. Upon the discovery, they realized that Bright Eyes' earlier rampage was not due to the ALZ-112 (an experimental drug that, through neurogenesis, repairs brain cells and increases mental capabilities) in her system, but due to her maternal instincts to protect her newborn baby whom she had secretly given birth to a day or two earlier. Following the death of his mother, Caesar was found by the chimpanzee handler, Robert Franklin, and the eccentric scientist, Will Rodman.
Caesar was also the biological son of the late Alpha and the late Bright Eyes, the adoptive son of Will Rodman and Caroline Aranha, the adoptive grandson of the late Charles Rodman, the husband of the late Cornelia, the father of the late Blue Eyes and Cornelius.īiography Rise of the Planet of the Apes A legend is bornĬaesar was born in the San Francisco biotech company Gen-Sys Laboratories as the son of a female chimpanzee nicknamed Bright Eyes and an alpha male chimpanzee of Bright Eyes' tribe residing in the West African Jungle. Caesar was an evolved chimpanzee, the leader of the Ape Army, the king of the Ape Colony and the patriarch of the Royal Ape Family. or without me." ―Caesar's final words to Maurice before his deathĬaesar was the main protagonist of the Planet of the Apes reboot series.
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