KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Stills Highlight The Movie's Impressive Cast As New Release Date Is Revealed

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Stills Highlight The Movie's Impressive Cast As New Release Date Is Revealed

A new gallery of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes stills put the spotlight on the movie's human and simian leads, while 20th Century Studios has also announced a new, slightly earlier release date...

By JoshWilding - Jan 13, 2024 10:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: SFFGazette.com

20th Century Studio has chosen to shift gears by moving Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes out of Furiosa's way. The movie has ditched its original Memorial Day (May 24) weekend release and instead swings into theaters two weeks sooner than expected on May 10. 

Now, it will go head-to-head with Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, Sony's Horrorscope, and an untitled movie from Angel Studios. None of those is likely to be particularly stiff competition and should pose a much smaller threat to Kingdom's chances of finding opening weekend success than George Miller's long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road prequel. 

Perhaps most importantly, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will enjoy a whole fourteen extra days on IMAX screens before having to give those up to Furiosa

Disney is all too aware that these movies can make serious money at the box office as the previous trilogy earned an impressive $1.68 billion combined globally. The franchise as a whole has made more than $2.1 billion.

In the movie, director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows.

As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes stars Owen Teague (IT), Freya Allan (The Witcher), Kevin Durand (Locke & Key), Peter Macon (Shameless), and William H. Macy (Fargo).

The screenplay is by Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds) and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Avatar: The Way of Water) and Patrick Aison (Prey), based on characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver. Producers include Wes Ball, Joe Hartwick, Jr. (The Maze Runner), Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Jason Reed (Mulan), with Peter Chernin (Planet of the Apes) and Jenno Topping (Ford v. Ferrari) serving as executive producers.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, a new entry in 20th Century Studios' global, epic franchise, now opens exclusively in theaters on May 24 10, 2024.

Some new stills from the movie have also been released (via SFFGazette.com) which you can take a look at below. Several previously unseen characters receive the spotlight, as does Freya Allan's mysterious human character who we now know is called Nova. 

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EZBeast
EZBeast - 1/13/2024, 10:12 AM
This and godzilla x Kong are the only movies I'm legitimately pumped for this year! Will be there day one for this.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/13/2024, 10:14 AM
@EZBeast - those are the only two?! Are you talking popcorn movies or overall?
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/13/2024, 10:27 AM
@EZBeast - not JOKER 2 or DP3?
Gabimaru
Gabimaru - 1/13/2024, 10:35 AM
@bobevanz - it's his own opinion
Origame
Origame - 1/13/2024, 10:57 AM
@lazlodaytona - in fairness, we don't have any footage of those two. Personally I'm apprehensive of joker 2 conceptually due to how the original was so dependent on us not knowing what's real or not.

And dp3 is being made by a new studio who's had a big downward trajectory.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/13/2024, 11:46 AM
@Origame - I have faith in Reynolds' ability to not let the film crash and burn. And Phoenix is VERY picky about the films he does so I believe in him as well. but, just my 2 cents :)
EZBeast
EZBeast - 1/13/2024, 11:48 AM
@lazlodaytona - I disliked the last joker and Deadpool films and have no real interest in the new films. Superheroes in general are not my go to films.
EZBeast
EZBeast - 1/13/2024, 11:49 AM
@bobevanz - overall! This year I'm hoping for a few surprise enjoyable films like talk to me from last year.
Origame
Origame - 1/13/2024, 11:50 AM
@lazlodaytona - I get your faith. And to an extent I agree. Just saying, there's plenty of reason to not be excited about either. Especially dp3, since Reynolds isn't exactly above being in sh!t.
EZBeast
EZBeast - 1/13/2024, 11:50 AM
@bobevanz - I did forget furiosa. That has my interest if the reviews are solid...
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/13/2024, 12:21 PM
@EZBeast - oh. sorry. I was confused (still am) by the fact we're both commenting on a comicbook/superhero site.
Well, I hope the 2 you are looking forward to satisfies you!
EZBeast
EZBeast - 1/13/2024, 12:26 PM
@lazlodaytona - much like comicbook.com these are sites dedicated to nerd culture so it usually is decent at updating me on films like those. However the shifty quality had me coming around less and they're a bit too picky on what they choose to or not post about.
EZBeast
EZBeast - 1/13/2024, 12:26 PM
@lazlodaytona - here on cbm
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/13/2024, 12:33 PM
@EZBeast - Understandable. Well, don't be too picky cause you're one of the good ones to talk to.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/13/2024, 10:13 AM
LOL at people asking why Caesar isn't in this
Origame
Origame - 1/13/2024, 10:59 AM
@bobevanz - dude, this reminds me of this guy praising anakin in the ahsoka series.

He was like, "it's so weird how after Vader died in return of the jedi we didn't see him in the series again, even in legends"

And I'm like, gee, I wonder why we don't see him canonically after he died 🙄
Blergh
Blergh - 1/13/2024, 11:32 AM
@bobevanz - WHERE'S TIM ROTH AND MARK WHALBERG?!?!?!


/s
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/13/2024, 10:37 AM
Smart move. I definitely planned to watch both this and Furiosa one the big screen, so it's nice to have a few weeks in between
JFerguson
JFerguson - 1/13/2024, 10:38 AM
Freya Allen should play sentry
WaffeX
WaffeX - 1/13/2024, 10:39 AM
Can't wait for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Deadpool 3 and Dune 2
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/13/2024, 10:46 AM
Now I can't wait to see this but impressive cast?

DocSpock
DocSpock - 1/13/2024, 10:47 AM

I liked the last 3 ape movies, and I'll be in the theater day 1 for this.

The last ape movie certainly seemed like a better society than modern day California.

tmp3
tmp3 - 1/13/2024, 11:00 AM
Love this new series but everything about this is just giving me serious “mediocre spin-off only made to profit off IP” vibes, whereas the Ceaser trilogy felt like three fantastic block-busters. Idk… we’ll see
Cleander
Cleander - 1/13/2024, 12:13 PM
Caesar is a religious figure - Proximus Caesar is the highest position held in ape society
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/13/2024, 1:57 PM
Nice to see Macy added, the man was gold on Shameless.

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