Harmony Jones
The original plan for the new “Planet of the Apes” series was a new trilogy of films – and that’s it. But with the success of this year’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”, 20th Century Fox are reportedly – and not unexpectedly – going to push forward with a fourth film in the rebooted franchise.
Andy Serkis, who plays Caesar in the films, tells MTV that he’s heard as many as two more films might be in the works.
It might be three films. It could be four. It could be five. Who knows? 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.
Serkis hasn’t seen the script for the next – the third in the new series – installment in the franchise, but speculates when and where it might be set.
To be honest, it’s very, very early in where we choose to drop our anchor in the next film, so 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 part of the desire for Matt [Reeves] to do this next movie about continuing the enjoyment of seeing these apes evolve
The third “Apes” movie is due 2016.
