New Planet of the Apes Movie May Not Be a Reboot After All

A movie enforcement has suggested the caller Planet of the Apes movie isn't a hard reboot aft all, pursuing quality it volition not beryllium a "continuation" of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

This week, it was precocious reported that the adjacent Planet of the Apes movie volition beryllium helmed by The Fantastic Four: First Steps manager Matt Shakman. According to Deadline, Shakman is processing an archetypal communicative with Josh Friedman, the writer of the erstwhile film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. However, Deadline said that its sources indicated this caller movie wouldn't beryllium a "continuation" of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, leaving fans to judge they volition get yet different reboot of the Apes films.

Some were annoyed fixed however galore Apes reboots we already person and however it whitethorn beryllium hard to re-invest successful different movie if the workplace is consenting to wantonness vessel connected stories truthful quickly. But 20th Century Studios brag Steve Asbell addressed the substance connected societal media with a somewhat cryptic statement: "I conjecture it depends connected however you specify 'continuation?'"

Asbell didn't elaborate connected what this means, but it surely seems to connote that determination is immoderate benignant of nexus oregon transportation to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Perhaps it volition travel a antithetic clan of apes successful the aforesaid epoch oregon diagnostic a broadside quality from the erstwhile film. As 1 idiosyncratic joked, "Apes successful space?"

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was designed to motorboat a caller trilogy of movies and Asbell noted soon aft its merchandise that the workplace was moving guardant connected a sequel. However, manager Wes Bell went connected to nonstop The Legend of Zelda film, which whitethorn explicate the deficiency of improvement of a due sequel. It's unclear if Bell volition instrumentality to proceed his Apes trilogy aft the Zelda movie, but we'll conscionable person to hold and see.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ended connected a beauteous large cliffhanger. The quality of Mae delivered a harddrive to a concealed basal of humans, which allowed them to pass with different humans utilizing satellites. It seemed to suggest that the humans volition effort to rally unneurotic and propulsion backmost against the apes, but it remains to beryllium seen if that volition get resolved.

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