When we finished watching last year’s hit, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the tensions between humans and apes had reached boiling point. It’s no surprise, then, that the sequel will be named War of the Planet of the Apes.
Director Matt Reeves revealed the title during a Collider interview, and discussed where the original film ended and what’s in store for the next instalment. He said, “What was really most important was to leave you in that emotional space with Caesar, which is the ending of the movie that you’ve seen, and know that the future is coming, but not already be at that future. Because the moment is really about the moment that’s past. It could have been the planet of the humans and the apes, and that parting between Caesar and Malcolm is a very emotional moment to me, and I didn’t want something that distracted and became something else.”
War of the Planet of the Apes is set for release on the 14th of July, 2017 so we have a long wait!
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