This is where Dawn of the Planet of the Apes picks up, in a world where Caesar and his family have developed a woodland community under the belief that humanity is no more as they have not been seen for the past two winters. Of course, humankind ends up taking themselves down as Will's gaseous drug is stolen by Caesar who liberates his caged brothers and sisters while unknowingly causing a deadly pandemic called the Simian Flu that significantly decreases Earth's population, leaving only those who were genetically immune to the contagion. All Planet of the Apes movies are available to stream on Disney Plus Enter the titan that is Serkis, bringing tangible life to what could have easily been a laughable CGI disaster. When a suit from Gen-Sys named Jacobs (David Oyelowo) plans to put down some of their subjects, Will takes home a baby chimp who is named Caesar by his ailing father Charles (John Lithgow). Will Rodman (the flaccid James Franco) creates an experimental cure for Alzheimer's disease at a capitalistic biotech company called Gen-Sys that abusively tests their products on apes. Then came the reboot/prequel series which began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes which serves as origins of how the Planet of the Apes came to be from a contemporary perspective. In Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Caesar strives to maintain peace among the apes and their co-inhabitants in the oppressive humans, which predictably leads to conflict in an epic final battle.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes features the introduction of Caesar and his rebellion against a totalitarian species to whom he ultimately shows mercy despite having the upper hand. However, it is indeed the same ape-abundant world from before and Heston leads a mission that results in the total annihilation of Earth as the film's final narration reads: 'In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.' If the fact that humanity is always the villain was not made clear in Planet of the Apes, it is solidified in Beneath and even more so in future installments.Įscape from the Planet of the Apes is about two surviving apes who escape Earth moments before its destruction and enter a time warp back to 1973 where they are discriminated against and persecuted. In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, a rescue ship is sent for the characters in the first film, and it crash-lands in the year 3955, with the lone survivor assuming that he has ended up on a different planet.

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