Don't Expect The Planet Of The Apes Franchise To Get More Fantastical — cinemablend.com

With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes now available on Blu-ray and DVD, I recently had the opportunity to interview director Matt Reeves – who is also helming the upcoming sequel – and during our conversation the filmmaker explained why audiences shouldn’t anticipate the franchise to start moving in more strange sci-fi directions. Specifically citing the bizarreness of 1970’s Beneath The Planet of the Apes - which features human mutants living underground worshiping a nuclear bomb – I asked the filmmaker if he plans on moving the rebooted series in those kinds of directions, and while he acknowledged that aspect of the franchise’s history, he also told me why there are no current plans to head the new movies towards that angle. Said Reeves,

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