Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes announced for 2024

One of the best blockbuster franchises revivals of recent years is the Planet of the Apes Trilogy. It’s consistently entertaining and thought-provoking. Beginning in an understated fashion with Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes When the series began, it was a success. Batman director Matt Reeves grabbed the baton for 2014’s Dawn Planet of the Apes and 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes It takes a subdued, but not simplistic approach to postapocalyptic action and never loses sight of humanity in the tale about an ape community.

Their story isn’t over, turns out. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes “an all-new chapter in the ‘Planet of the Apes’ saga” will enter production next month. 20th Century Studios claims that the story will resume many years after its conclusion. War for the Planet of the Apes, but any plot details beyond that aren’t being revealed yet.

Kingdom of the Planet of the ApesOwen Teague, who will play the lead role (It), Freya Allan (The WitcherPeter Macon (The Orville), Wes Bell will direct the film. He is best known for Maze Runner movies, but also the unfortunate canned animation adaptation. Mouse Guard). While this seems like a changing of the guard, two of the writers on the script — Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver — worked on the first two films, and they’re joined by Josh Friedman and Patrick Aison (the latter of which wrote the excellent Prey).

Unfortunately, there’s no mention of the one thing that helped make the new Apes trilogy such a success: Weta Digital’s work bringing the Apes to life, which included an all-time great performance from Andy Serkis as the ape leader Caesar. That’s not to say the movie can’t be good with another team and performer, it’s just easily the biggest shoes to fill, the sort of thing that will help or hinder the storytelling ambitions of a movie like this.

Kingdom of the Planet of the ApesIt is expected to be premiered in 2024.