Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
Release date: May 24 (in theaters)
Stars: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H. Macy
Director: Wes Ball
Nearly 300 years after the events of War For The Planet Of The Apes, humans are now the wild animals in a world ruled by chimps, gorillas, and orangutans. When new chimp leader Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durnad) perverts the teachings of the original Caesar for his own personal gain, it sets off a power struggle, as these things tend to do. In Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, it’s up to a young chimp named Noa (Teague) and a human named Mae (Allan) to set things right, even as continuity would appear to be leading us inexorably towards the Charlton Heston timeline. [Luke Y. Thompson]
