Are All The 'Planet Of The Apes' Movies Canon? 'Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes' Director Weighs In

Interview with Director Wes Ball of  Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes.

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00:00As far as the continuity goes, I mean, another thing that I love kind of the looping nature of

00:04the Apes franchise is obviously Escape kind of took everything back. In your mind, is every

00:10single movie canon or...? Yeah. Look, truthfully for me, what was on my plate when we were thinking

00:17about this thing was the previous three movies, the trilogy of the Caesar trilogy and the 68

00:22original. Those were in my sights, really. Everything else is, which I think is what's

00:28interesting about this franchise, it's always been kind of loosely connected. It's never been

00:33so rigid that, unlike other franchises, that if you change one little thing, what? You could kind

00:38of reinvent. You could have some freedom to play a little bit. It's loose. So as long as I feel

00:45like we stuck to those pillars, I feel like we were in good shape. We belong to the franchise

00:52in a way. And you see lots of echoes throughout the movie. You kind of see some beneath in there.

00:55You kind of see some conquest in there. But yeah, that's how it goes. But also,

01:00it depends on how you think about time travel movies anyway, because the fact they went back

01:04and maybe we haven't gotten to that point yet. I was literally going to say, maybe all these are

01:07the prequels to the original. That's something for other people to go and debate on, which is great.

01:10They can go out in the parking lot and debate all this stuff. Love it.