There's 'a lot of story to tell' in the Apes franchise before Charlton Heston original
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director Wes Ball says the franchise has 'a long road ahead' of it, and plans are already in place for more sequels. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is in cinemas now.
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00:00I wanted to ask, because obviously the question that's always in my mind is,
00:03how close are we getting to the original Planet of the Apes?
00:05I wondered, for you, if you can talk about it, how close do you think we are to that?
00:09I don't think we're close. I think we've got a long road ahead of us.
00:12You're right. It's just 2,000 years that range, or something like that, close to that.
00:18So we've got a long time before that thing happens.
00:21We've got a lot of story to tell before that.
00:23We've still got to blow up the Statue of Liberty.
00:25We've still got to erase almost all signs of humanity.
00:27We've got to get apes to decide to erase all concept,
00:31all knowledge of what humans were, for some reason.
00:33There's so much great stuff to explore, I think,
00:36before we even get to that Charlton Heston coming down from space.
00:39Obviously, we know that space is crucial and important in all this.
00:43There's plenty of things for us that we've got in our minds of what we can do there.
00:47But yeah, looking forward to it.
00:49And actually, obviously, this film, at the end, really sets it up for more going on.
00:53So I wondered, are there plans for sequels? Do you know what you're doing?
00:56Yeah, we hope so.
00:57If the movie's successful and audiences seem to appreciate it and like it,
01:01we've got ideas for where we want to go with this thing.
01:03We've been talking about it for years now, this movie, and where ultimately we want to go,
01:07and setting up things subtly that we think we could pay off in the future movies.
01:11There's plenty of stuff to do there.
01:13So we're excited and hopeful that we can continue on with this series
01:19and contribute something to this crazy franchise that's lasted for so long.
01:26Yeah.