How many Planet of the Apes films are on the horizon? Andy Serkis speaks!

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 11 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

How much monkey business do we have in our future? According to Andy Serkis, it's looking like quite a few more years worth.

As we patiently away the follow-up to this past summer's tremendous DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (coming in 2016), Mr. Serkis and the rest of the DAWN gang are now talking about their achievement as the film hits home video for the first time in a couple weeks. Naturally, questions about the future of the franchise are coming up; the people need to know what's in store for their beloved ape leader Caesar.

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In an interview with MTV, the man who plays Caesar indicated that the next film will most likely not be the conclusion of a trilogy. Read on:

It’s very, very early in where we choose to drop anchor in the next film. It could be five years after the event, it could be the night after the events of where we left ‘Dawn,’ so it’s very difficult to know where the story is going right at this moment because it’s being written as we speak. I know that part of the desire for Matt [Reeves] to do this next movie is about continuing the enjoyment of seeing these apes evolve. So I don’t think we’re going to see a situation where we’re jumping….It might be three films, It could be four. It could be five. Who knows? But the journey will continue. It might not necessarily be summarized or completely fulfilled in this next one. The point being, eventually we know that we’re going to end up back at ‘The Planet of the Apes,’ but whether it’s this film or not, I don’t know.”

I've been wondering if we will, as Serkis says, end up back at THE PLANET OF THE APES eventually. That is to say, will this APES team ultimately be put in a position where they have to remake the 1968 classic? I doubt they'll go that route, but shall be interesting to find out.

The next PLANET OF THE APES film opens July 29, 2016; Matt Reeves will once again direct. DAWN comes out on December 2nd; pre-order it right HERE.

Source: MTV

Tags: aith, Andy Serkis, Arrow in the head, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Matt Reeves

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