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SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Ahead of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes release date in May, Ball explained why Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is set 300 years after the reboot trilogy. During an exclusive interview with Screen Rant at WonderCon, the director says the fourth film attempts to reinvent the franchise with new characters and story.
I think Cornelius is a great character and that opportunity is still there. This movie does not replace the previous three trilogy. It does not replace the fact that someone could still do a little standalone story between our three. So for me, it was not interesting enough. I needed to have something that was new. It was different. I think we've seen that in just the world, the state of the movie business that we're in right now, I think you see it. Audiences are getting a little tired of the same thing.
So the best thing to do is to give it a fresh face and start kind of a new, and our story embraces that idea. It's about rediscovering, unearthing, kind of what came before. And so just to follow the same character, it just would not yield as much, at least stuff for me personally, to get excited. I'd certainly love to watch that movie. I just don't think I would've made that movie.