How ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Looks Like the Original 1968 Movie
Maybe you were watching Super Bowl LVIII and saw the commercial for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and were like, “There’s a new Apes movie? You Maniacs!”
Kingdom comes out in theaters May 10, seven years after the new trilogy starring Andy Serkis concluded with War for the Planet of the Apes. Kingdom, which is set in the same universe as those three films, takes place many years after War ended. Apes are now the planet’s dominant civilization, and humans are feral and hunted.
Watching the Kingdom trailer, Apes fans will notice several callbacks to the original 1968 film starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans and Kim Hunter.
Check out some of these shots for comparison between the 1968 and the 2024 Apes films:
The horn sounds:
Netting some humans:
Through the corn maze:
In log we trust:
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil:
“The elders did not tell us everything about this world”:
Ruins of great human achievements:
“You may not like what you find”:
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March 2020
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