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News Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - Pre-release Thread

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the next film in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series, and will be seeing the series moving forward "generations" from Caeser's era to a something closer to what we got in the first two movies of the original series. It will be released on May 24, 2024.

Synopsis from Wikipedia:
Generations after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), many ape clans have emerged in the oasis to which Caesar led his fellow apes, while humans have regressed into a feral state. When the ape leader Proximus Caesar perverts the teachings of Caesar to enslave other clans in search of the last traces of a secret human technology, the ape Noa embarks on a journey to find freedom alongside a young human woman named Mae.

Cast list from Wikipedia:
Owne Teague as Noa, a young chimpanzee born generations after Caesar's time
Freya Allen as Mae, a feral young
Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar, a powerful chimpanzee ruler who leads a coastal clan of apes in search of human technology.
Peter Macon as Raka, a wise Bornean orangutang, and Ally to Noa
William H. Macy
Travis Jeffrey
Eka Darville
Neil Sandilands
Sara Wiseman
Lydia Peckham
Ras-Samuel Weld A'abzgi
Dichen Lachman

Teaser Poster
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Teaser Trailer
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Wow, that trailer was definitely not what I expected at all. I thought we were just jumping a head a few years, I didn't realize were going to something so similar to what we got in the first two movies in the original series. I definitely like what I'm seeing here, but this is pretty vague.
 
I'm a big fan of the Serkis trilogy so I'm very curious to see this film and what themes it'll tackle. The trailer looks fascinating...and it's curious how the depictions of the apes is a mix of the Serkis trilogy (most of the chimps, some of the orangutans), Burton (the gorillas), and the original film series (Raka the orangutan).
 
I personally hope they resist the urge, but there are some shots in the trailer that make me think they might be doing something with it in this movie. Though on the other hand, I'd be fine with the Icarus returning if they do something completely different with it.
 
Tosk said:
They're talking about the Icarus that gets lost in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Apologies if you know that and I've misunderstood.
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12 years is a long time to remember minutia about a movie I did not take to.

Just finished rewatching Rise of the Planet the Apes, and I'm reaffirming my original stand: "James Franco does not seem smarter than an ape".

He verbally assaulted a county clerk. A little old lady. It was probably filmed on CCTV. That's 30 days in county lock up, 6 months community service and a years worth of anger management courses. People with even half a brain don't do that.

You might also think that Mark Wahlberg does not seem more intellectual than an ape, but he broke out of jail using a wet rag, so he's at least smarter than a 6th grader.

"Sigh".

The Icarus was only going to Mars, so they are not going to mistake Earth for some where else or Mars, and unless they go into hibernation for the trip to Mars, which breaks down somehow, or they see the plague, and elect to stay in orbit for decades until it's safe to land... The Astronauts will all die of Plague the moment they touch grass, even centuries later after the fact, on a literal Planet of the Apes.

Thank you for your patience.
 
Tosk said:
I personally hope they resist the urge, but there are some shots in the trailer that make me think they might be doing something with it in this movie. Though on the other hand, I'd be fine with the Icarus returning if they do something completely different with it.
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If the Icarus does return, I could see them doing the story more from the Apes perspective this time.
 
The full trailer is out
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I'm definitely looking forward to this.
 
EW.com has posted an interview with Owen Teague, the actor who plays the main characer, Noa, who gives a bit more context to what we see in the trailer.
The movie is set 300 years after the previous movies, which is a detailed I don't think we'd heard yet. In this era the along with the human devolving, the apes have also split off into "different factions and clans" and Noa is part of the Eagle Clan. The Eagle Clan is "rather isolationist" and the movie follows Noa as he "thrust into this crazy world that he's been sheltered from his entie life".
Kevin Durand's ape leader is called Proximus Ceasar, and he's taken Ceasar's name and his philosophies to fit his own goals, and that he's trying to bring all the apes together into on kingdom. And he's also rediscovered electricity, which according to Teague, the apes see as a "magical power".
 
Maybe Kingdom is the first of a new trilogy which culminates in a mechanized ape society which the Icarus returns to Earth to find. This will bring the series full circle back to the Boulle novel. The plague will have mutated by then to be harmless to the crew.
 
A 300-year jump ahead. Taylor doesn't return until 3978 though, according to his ship's chronometer. We still have another 1,600 years or so before catching up with Cornelius, Zira, and Dr. Zaius.
 
We've got a new TV spot with a little bit of new footage.
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