Planet Of The Apes 4: trilogy spin-off movie in the works

Spoilers ahead for the Planet Of The Apes movies...

Fox have been thinking through plans to extend their more recent Planet Of The Apes trilogy for a while now, and despite making less of a profit so far (at least in the US) with War For The Planet Of The Apes, the third and final film in that story, it seems they're not about to let that stop them from pressing ahead with another outing.

THR reports that the studio are considering a spin-off movie with one or more of the ape characters we're already familiar with.

"The whole idea of Bad Ape is that there are other apes out there, and those apes don’t have the benefits of Caesar's leadership," WFTPOTA director Matt Reeves explained. "The conflicts of the future are not going to be humans and apes, they will be apes and apes. I wanted to seed that idea because I thought there were a lot more stories and there are characters that I have grown to love."

Previously, Reeves and producer Dylan Clark also told Slashfilm that they had talked about extending the story beyond the current trilogy.

“We absolutely have ideas about where it goes. Because we know that that’s the ending, that it becomes Planet Of The Apes, the cool thing about what was started in Rise is that it’s no longer about what happens. It’s about how it happens. And stories about how are always about character and psychology”.

They added that “Caesar’s apes are not like the apes in the Planet Of The Apes, right? They’re very brutal to the humans. That’s not what’s going on, so how did that happen? And you know that Caesar had such integrity, and that he has this sort of sense of right and wrong, of his morality, yet you watch that be challenged. He ends up having to kill one of his own. All of those things give us a chance to explore human nature and do it in a way that is really fun. Because these are all, frankly, totally new stories. We’re not doing any stories that were done.”

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