Mark Bomback - the screenwriter on the new film - explains it like this: the new movies are a trilogy of prequels, meaning their stories will be viewed as mythology by a far-distant ape culture.Ĭonsidering the original films didn’t exactly have coherent continuity, this approach is not only novel, but smart.
The trilogy of new Plane of the Apes films - Rise, Dawn, and now War for the Planet of the Apes - don’t fit neatly in the same continuity of original five films.
