‘Apocalypto With Apes’: Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Producer And More Talk Director Wes Ball’s Vision For The New Movie



‘Apocalypto With Apes’: Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Producer And More Talk Director Wes Ball’s Vision For The New Movie

War for the Planet of the Apes could have easily ended the “reboot” era of the Apes franchise, with audiences being left to imagine what happened after the death of Andy Serkis’ Caesar. Instead, we’ll revisit this world next year in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, with the story picking up roughly 300 years after Caesar’s passing. One of Kingdom’s producers and its VFX supervisor have opened up about director Wes Ball’s vision for the 2024 movie release, and it involves a simple pitch he came up with: “Apocalypto with apes.”

If you’re unfamiliar with Apocalypto, the 2006 Mel Gibson-directed movie took place in Yucatán circa 1502 and followed a young man named Jaguar Paw being forced on a dangerous journey through the jungle, with all of the dialogue being spoken in the Indigenous Yucatec Mayan language. Once Ball decided he wanted to channel Apocalypto’s type of energy for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, he “had this flood of ideas, as there was now a way to “set a whole new trajectory” for this Apes timeline, as he told Empire. Producer Joe Hartwick elaborated on what Ball will deliver with this new chapter by saying the following about the main protagonist, Owen Teague’s Noa:

The last couple of movies concerned Caesar’s burden. Much like The Dark Knight, they felt heavy — super-enjoyable, but super-intense. We’re going in a different direction. Noa still has a burden, but it’s wrapped in a different level of adventure, mostly because the character hasn’t been exposed to the outside world before. So we’re seeing him see the world for the first time.



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