Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place “many generations” after the last movie–we’re talking hundreds of years here–and so it gets to establish a new franchise status quo for how things are going on Earth. We learn about the new way of things through the eyes of Noa, a small-town chimp from the “Eagle Clan.” This young ape is thrust into a much larger world than he ever knew existed after a brief encounter with a human leads to an armed group of masked apes invading his village and killing or kidnapping everyone in the name of Caesar.
Noa, left for dead, barely manages to survive and sets out on his rescue mission–and he meets and is forced to team up with an orangutan named Raka, who tells Noa about the real Caesar from the past, and that human from earlier, a young woman named Mae. Mae is a rare human who can talk, it turns out, and her people were also killed by those masked apes.
The bad apes belong to the forces of Proximus Caesar, a would-be king who’s trying to break into an old human vault that he thinks holds the key to further ape evolution–he’s been kidnapping other apes so he can use them to try to force open the massive vault door, but he’s not having any luck on that front. But Mae’s got a big secret that will make her a major wild card during this conflict. But before we go on from here, a warning.
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