Good news for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as with Disney purchasing Fox, the flick isn’t “Disneyfied.”
Disney now owns the rights to Planet of the Apes, Predator, Alien, etc. so apparently some fans have been on the fence.
Speaking with Empire Magazine which releases a new image, director Wes Ball eases those fan concerns.
“When I first started on it, I said, ‘I feel like Apes needs a little bit of Star Wars’,” said Ball. “It’s all still very grounded in reality, but it is essentially a quest narrative. Our main character – the young, impressionable Noa [Owen Teague] – meets characters along the way and becomes awakened as he winds up in a place that will test him, and he ultimately becomes his true self.”
The article makes a point of stating “not to say it skews hugely younger, with Ball still citing Apocalypto as an influence”: “We haven’t kiddified it, or Disneyfied it, if I’m allowed to say that!” Ball said. “But we have brought a younger spirit to it.”
Check out the new image of Noa and the first teaser below.
What is Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes about?
The official synopsis offers:
Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic, franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows.
As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is directed by Wes Ball (the “Maze Runner” trilogy) and stars Owen Teague (“IT”), Freya Allan (“The Witcher”), Kevin Durand (Locke & Key”), Peter Macon (“Shameless”), and William H. Macy (“Fargo”).
The screenplay is by Josh Friedman (“War of the Worlds”) and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (“Avatar: The Way of Water”) and Patrick Aison (“Prey”), based on characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and the producers are Wes Ball, Joe Hartwick, Jr. (“The Maze Runner”), Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Jason Reed (“Mulan”), with Peter Chernin (the “Planet of the Apes” trilogy) and Jenno Topping (“Ford v. Ferrari”) serving as executive producers.
Watch the first teaser trailer:
