Planet Of The Apes’ New Movie Is The Best Chance To Fix The Franchise’s Broken Timeline

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes could bring the entire Planet of the Apes franchise into a single continuity. The Planet of the Apes series first began with the eponymous 1968 movie, following astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) as he lands on a world ruled by talking apes, with Taylor eventually discovering that it is actually Earth centuries after a nuclear war. Planet of the Apes would spawn four sequels, with the franchise later being rebooted with Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes in 2001, and again in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which would launch the modern Planet of the Apes movies.