Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes trailer: Finally looking like a real Planet Of The Apes
Apes on horses, humans being herded, yelling on a beach: The Planet Of The Apes has finally arrived
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The previous films in the revived Planet Of The Apes franchise tended to go pretty heavy on the apes, but lighter than you might expect on the planet—having applied, across the three films in the reboot franchise, a fairly slow build-up toward going full “Charlton Heston in a leather loincloth.” Now, though, the first real trailer for the unwieldy-titled Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes is finally here, and, yeah, this is a world where you can see Roddy McDowell looking comfortable in eight pounds of simian make-up while riding on a horse.
Said equines are in obvious abundance, actually, as the film picks up many years after 2017's War For The Planet Of The Apes, now following Noa (Owen Teague), a young chimpanzee who owns not just a horse, but also, apparently, a bird, the ultimate ape status symbols. Meanwhile, a bunch of humans—who’ve gone Nova-style feral over the last however long its been—get hunted by more militaristic apes, who also are horse-owners. (Do you think the horses in this universe notice they’re being ridden by apes now, or is it all the same to them, at least until the inevitable rise of the Planet Of The Horses?)
In addition to Teague, the film also stars Freya Allen, Peter Macon, and Kevin Durand, who gets to give the big “I am the bad guy of this movie” bit when he declares “What a wonderful day!” to his assembled followers, which is actually pretty chill, as far as “I am your new monkey warlord” speeches go. Arriving fully seven years after the last film in the franchise, Kingdom is being directed by Maze Runner trilogy director Wes Ball, and is currently aimed at a May 24, 2024 premiere date.
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New Planet of the Apes trailer: OH!From the director of The Maze Runner: Oh….
EXACTLY my reaction. But the trailer does look pretty sweet.
This could be his big break if hes worth more than the Maze Runner movies.
that seemed like an entry point for a property that had a studio’s iron grip. I think Alien 3 is over-maligned, but definitely wasn’t the best harbinger of David Fincher’s career trajectory. (Also not saying this dude is the next Finch-man)
do the humans and apes have sex in any of them?
Planet of the Monkey Business
with each other?
yah does the human and ape fuck each other in any of the films?
“Get your hands on me, you damn dirty ape!”
“You maniacs!!! You blew them!! You blew them all!!!”
Jesus Christ dude
WWJD? Get it on with an ape, I’d assume.
“Alright. It’s just…you’re so damned ugly!”
They finally really did it.
if by “them,” you mean my dreams, then the answer is “every night.”
Humans and apes have sex all the time. Oh, you mean non-human apes. Ew.
Is there the slightest chance this will be good without Matt Reeves directing? His trilogy seemed to tell a complete story.
He only made two of them. The first was directed by Rupert Wyatt.
Initially misread Durand as Durant and kind of loved the idea of KD giving a petulant bad guy speech in the style of his Twitter burner accounts.
Durand Durant: Hungry Like The Monkey, Apes On Film
Bananarella?
My go to for the name Durant is the late husband & wife team of historians Will and Ariel Durant, authors of the 11 volume “Story of Civilization”.
It’s about time they got their filthy god damn ape hands busy.
yelling on a beach: so . . . the Jersey Shore?
I grew up watching the original Planet of the Apes movies and loved them. I’ve read since then that the films were racist responses to ongoing social events (i.e., civil rights, race riots). I can see that as a narrative, but I don’t really want to go back to watch them through that lens.
They were not racist, they were quite the opposite. It allowed them a medium to explore the themes on race, religion and social problems that wouldn’t have been able to tell in a contemporary film at that time. So in a nutshell what you say you read was bullshit, straight up.
Yeah, it sounds like someone found out the NRA guy used to be an actor and decided to slag his past work.
or it’s one of those ‘actually it’s racist against white people’ type things haha.
You do realize that it was based on a book? In French. It had nothing to do with American culture or events. I mean, France isn’t exactly immune to racism, being a former colonial power, but a serious investigation of the themes of Planet of the Apes would need to look at French, rather than US, history.
There were significant changes made to the movie. Rod Serling completely rewrote the ending. They don’t find the Eifell Tower on the beach. I don’t think the movie has anything to do with French history.
I’m talking about the (perhaps unconscious) themes of the work, not the obvious additions of little consequence like the ruined Statue of Liberty (as iconic as it is). But it certainly has nothing to do with US centric things like the civil rights movement or the “race riots” in the inner city at the time, which what I was responding to.
If you don’t think there was anything about American race relations in the movie you’re dumber that the OP.
I just don’t agree with your interpretation. It’s so clearly referencing American society at the time it was made. The Statue of Liberty scene isn’t of little consequence. It’s the lynchpin on which the whole movie rests. Taylor sees this crazy anti-science society filled with religious zealotry and bigotry, and then he realizes that it’s exactly the same as the one he came from. It’s literally the same planet. How much more important could something be to the story?
Well, race certainly is evident by #4, “Conquest of….” Take a look.
Though when I finally got around to reading the novel, I still liked the twist it had at the end. Plus, the apes lived in cities and the astronaut is taken to a hospital/lab that more closely resembles what he recognizes as civilization.
You’re correct, but I believe they were commenting on the movies, which took a lot of license with the novel, especially after the first one.
“I can see that as a narrative”
Because you’re dumb as shit?
Not at all; that’s a pretty distorted lens. In fact, by the time they got to the fourth movie “Conquest of…,” they were damn overt with the race aspect, especially in the too close to home riot scenes.
Rewatch Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. If anything, the sympathies lay with the more radical groups of the civil rights movement. The ending was changed because of the studio’s fear of that. Originally, the apes kill the human leader. The film was awkwardly looped backward to make it look like they refrain, while a line about restraint is added.
I hate every ape I seeFrom chimpan-A to chimpanzeeNo you’ll never make a monkey out of me
Personally, I am waiting for the 68 Comeback Special:
He looks like a televangelist in that image which is fitting.
“I love you, Dr. Zaius!”
When are we finally going to get Planet of the Cows?
I’m waiting more for the Planet of the Slugs, Maybe? But it is interesting that H.P. Lovecraft, long before the original Planet of the Apes, wrote about how after humans went extinct, a species of intelligent beetle would create a new civilization, and after them a spider civilization. He also described various species and civilizations existing before humanity, so that humanity wasn’t particularly special, just one more intelligent species on Earth with its own rise and fall.
Reminds me of Vonnegut’s (much) later novel “Galapagos.” As for the semi-fascinating but quite racist Lovecraft, I’m sure he was fine with the various successions as long as no descendants from Africa ascended.
Probably another surprise two parter. I’ll wait to watch until Return of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes premieres in 2025
Anchorman’s best moment was the bongo music cue during the fight scene.
Caesar is home
Why didn’t they just call it Kingdom of the Apes?
Because they wanted to make it clear it was attached to the franchise. Also the many 1970s sequels to the original movie all had “Planet of the Apes” in their titles so maybe an homage?
Because it might become confused with Kingdom of the Spiders, which would be awesome to see if Shatner ever got out of that mess.
If I remember that movie right, doesn’t the movie end with the main characters trapped in a house, looking out a window in horror at…. an artist’s rendering of the town covered with spiderwebs?
I doubt horses care about which primates are sitting on their backs.Which brings us to this already being a planet of the apes because… *sigh* Never mind, it’s too early in the morning for pedantry.
Well, gorillas can weigh over 400 pounds, so a horse might care about that part!
But these particular riders have their bare asses right on the horses’ backs!
I’ll miss Matt Reeves and Caesar, I’m sure, but I’ve been in for these movies since the first, non-Reeves one. So, I’ll probably be there opening weekend for this one, too.
I get that franchises and IP are the key to getting anything made now, but “Kingdom Of The Apes” would be a much simpler, catchier, easier to say and remember title for this movie. And I think everyone would still know it was a new Planet Of The Apes movie.For the next inevitable reboot, I hope they take more inspiration from the original novel, where the Apes were more advanced, with modern (well, 1960’s) technology and the reaction to a talking human was more realistic and interesting.
I think Matt Reeves deserves most of the credit for turning these around so not sure how it will go without him
The reboot trilogy was fantastic, so I’m cautiously optimistic, even though the two best parts of that trilogy are busy making The Batman 2. This teaser is a good start, though.
Jesus, it’s been seven years? What’s with this time bullshit? Always moving forward! Fucking sucks.
I was hoping this film would be closer to the original novel in giving the apes an actual urban civilization. I still have the image in my mind of apes using monkey bars as crosswalks from the book. I mean, they have the budget, and it would be so much more cool to have apes taking over the cities left behind by the humans. Ironic that the largely forgettable 90s version actually kept the original ending. I love all of the original and the remake media (even had the boardgame as a kid!), and this film looks great. Maybe in the sequel?
This looks bad!