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. But that is exactly why remaking the original Planet of the Apes may be necessary.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. The new series of movies take place in modern times with relatively modern technology, so using the excuse that astronauts left Earth before the events of Rise of the Planets of the Apes and have been asleep for two thousand years, only to come home and find out that primates run the world may not be as easy to believe with everything that has been laid out before it. Some changes may need to be made to make it all fit, however. While not every franchise needs a reboot, or several in this case, continuing the series up to the point that the events of the original Planet of the Apes are retold would be a proper way to continue with the story and raise the stakes once again.

It may not be the last movie needed to get to that place, especially considering the two thousand years between when the astronauts left Earth and when they came back down, but it should be a step forward in showing the complete dominance of the planet by apes and how man is almost forgotten. The backstory of how apes became the dominant species on Earth and the fall of man has been laid out over the past three films, and the new Disney release should be the next step in bridging that gap. The series starting with Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a reboot in the sense that it pumped fresh blood into an older property, but the movies also acted as prequels, containing references to the original series and showed events that could lead to the conditions the astronauts find in the original Planet of the Apes.

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