Freedom fighter: Young ape Noa (Owen Teague) leads the charge.
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
OUT 24 MAY
IN 2017’S WAR For The Planet Of The Apes, Matt Reeves definitively ended the story of chimp revolutionary-turned-leader Caesar (Andy Serkis) with the prime-ape’s death. But, as Troy McClure would attest, the Planet Of The Apes never stops spinning. Besides, the original intention of the Serkis-led trilogy was to set in motion the events that would one day lead to the upside-down world we discovered in the 1968 original. We still have roughly 2,000 years to go before Chuck Heston makes his crash-landing in Dr Zaius’ backyard. So there’s plenty of story to tell. The question was: which one?
Wes Ball, director of The Maze Runner and its two sequels (another dystopian trilogy), has the answer, in the form of all-new simian opus Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes. And it might not be what you expected. We are not, as was previously speculated and reported, picking up with the son of Caesar.