Up until now, it looks like the franchise has been sidestepping the timeline of the original Planet of the Apes films. We are still in what is essentially prequel territory. Do you guys think they eventually remake the original films in this franchise? Or maybe create their own versions of the upcoming timeline?
sharei don't think they will get that far
those films are still thousands of years in the future
I think they're going to try to get a second trilogy out of this. But i'm skeptical they'll get past this one.
shareIt seems like the plan is for them to end up back where the original 1968 story "happened" by the end of the second trilogy in the reboot series... in other words, the sixth film would essentially be a remake of Planet of the Apes.
If I were them, I'd go back to the original book for inspiration there... they don't want to just make a soulless "modern" copy of the 1968 film, or a POTA "alternate universe" reimagining, like the 2001 movie. They could keep faithful to the original plot of the book, while still making it set in the universe of the reboot movies.
they are hoping to make 9, not 6
shareI hope they get back to the original setting by the sixth movie. If they make three more AFTER that, it should be a brand new trilogy, set thousands of years later in the FAR future, and give us a totally unique new world (I assume they won't go with "earth blows up" ending from Beneath the Planet of the Apes). They really don't want to drag it out for nine movies before they get back to the original Charlton Heston movie setting. I would name the sixth film simply "The Planet of the Apes", and make it a direct adaptation of the original Pierre Boulle novel (astronaut lands in a world run by intelligent talking Apes with modern day technology), only set in the universe of the reboot films. The film between Kingdom and the sixth movie will be able to fill in the gaps between what we just saw and the original novel.
someone else suggested icarus arriving at the very end of 9, which sounds pretty good to me
shareEh, the original film is set around the year 4000. We're still only around 300 years into the future, so while you COULD drag it out for nine movies, I don't think the audience would stick around for that. I can't think of any film franchise that took nine movies to live up to its original intent.
It really wouldn't be that hard to "bridge the gap" between Kingdom and the original Planet of the Apes story with one more film. The fifth installment can show that the corrupt regime of the Ape Kingdom had dire consequences after what happened in Kingdom. As a result, there's an ape civil war, the monarchy is overthrown, religious clerics who enforced "Ape law" take over and "reformed" things. Over the course of the new movie, an Ape renaissance of sorts occurred over the centuries, to the point where Ape society advances to use modern technology, and the story of Caesar eventually falls into "legend" and becomes a vaguely explained creation myth about how the "first Ape" spoke and created their society and banished the savage human beasts away from civilization. Chimps, Gorillas, and Orangutans organize Ape society along their familiar roles in the original story (Orangutans become the politicians/religious clerics/government officials, Chimps become the scientists and everyday workers, Gorillas become the military/security officials), end of the film they erect a statue of the "lawgiver" Ape. Post-credits scene, 1000 years later, the Icarus lands... leading directly into the sixth installment: The Planet of the Apes
i am not arguing with you,
but there have been 33 mcu movies
and 25 bond films
so i don't see any reason they would have to stop at 9
Yes but it didn't take 9 movies to get to Bond's "origin story" or before they could adapt one of the books directly. Even in the MCU, it didn't take 9 movies before they got to the Avengers story. I'm sure they COULD make dozens more Planet of the Apes movies, I just don't think they want to take 9 movies before they get back to the setting of the original novel. If they've "greenlight" 9 movies, fine, they can do a third trilogy AFTER they get back to that setting.
We haven't seen any talking human go into hiding in caves with a nuke yet.
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