‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ First Trailer

It’s been a few years, but it’s finally time to return to The Planet Of the Apes in FOX’s newest chapter in the franchise, Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes. In the new film. Wes Ball has taken the directorial reigns as we jump forward in time to several generations after the reign of Cesar.

The apes have inherited the earth and several species co-exist as the dominant life-form while humans have been reduced to feral creatures in the brush. Now, one ape must go on a journey after a vision and what he finds could change the future for all ape-kind.

Kingdom of the Planet Of the Apes is set to hit theaters next Memorial Day.

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” is directed by Wes Ball (the “Maze Runner” trilogy) and 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, and the producers are Wes Ball, Joe Hartwick, Jr. (“The Maze Runner”), Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Jason Reed (“Mulan”), with Peter Chernin (the “Planet of the Apes” trilogy) and Jenno Topping (“Ford v. Ferrari”) serving as executive producers.