The Planet of the Apes reboots have consistently proven successful, and it’s sounding like there’s plans for even more of them going forward.
While I haven’t seen Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which released just last week, I’m definitely quite fond of the reboot films. Sure, the first one, Rise, is a bit more of your generic 2010s blockbuster, its Matt Reeves (The Batman) directed sequels Dawn and War really are some quite good bits of filmmaking. Personally, I’m not sure if we needed Kingdom, but it’s here, and in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, it seems like franchise producers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are certainly interested in making more.
“When you first came up with this idea, the Apes franchise way back, you saw nine movies,” Silver said while speaking to Jaffa in their THR interview. “We thought, ‘This is crazy ambitious.’ But here we are. We’re at four.” Jaffa responded saying he “saw nine. I don’t know if we’ll make it to nine. I would love it. We’ve spoken to not just [director Wes Ball, writer Josh Friedman] and [producer] Joe Hartwick Jr., but to Steve Asbell and Scott Aversano at [20th Century Studios] about what these next movies can be.”
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