
Later on, Will, with Jacobs beside him, presented the 112 to the board, starting with chimp #9's performance on the Lucas tower before given the drug, which lead to her failure as expected. Jacobs gave in and consented to present the 112 to Gen-Sys' Board of Directors, letting Will leave the office to prepare with a smile until Jacobs told him to not get emotional during the proposal, which Will agreed. While Will remain adamant about the 112's progress, Jacobs voiced his concern about Will rushing it, but Will assured him it's time to move the drug to human trials. Seeing Jacobs at his desk while on the phone, Will told him the 112 works, forcing Jacobs to wrap up his call and look over the file Will gave. Ecstatic, Will told Franklin to send him a copy of the recording as he ran out of the lab and proceeded to his superior Steven Jacobs' office. One day, Will walked in on a lab to monitor co-worker Robert Franklin and Chimp #9, who was one of thirteen chimpanzee test subjects that has been injected with the 112 virus, and became astonished to see the chimp complete the Lucas tower in twenty moves. His attempts, however, lead to the fall of the human race and the rise of the Evolved Apes.įor almost six years at Gen-Sys, Will has been working on an experimental drug he called the ALZ-112, a gene therapy he designed to allow the brain to replicate cells to repair itself, to save his father Charles Rodman, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Will was the Yale educated pharmaceutical chemist who was responsible for the creation of ALZ-112, the attempted cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Will was the son of the late Charles Rodman, the adoptive father of the late Caesar, the boyfriend of Caroline Aranha, the adoptive father-in-law of the late Cornelia and the adoptive grandfather of the late Blue Eyes and Cornelius. William "Will" Rodman was the deuteragonist of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This isn't the way, you know what they're capable of. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (archive footage) " Caesar.
