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The way director Matt Reeves talks, you can infer theres a lot more mileage left in the Planet of the Apes franchise. Ahead of the release of the third film in the rebooted series, War For the Planet of the Apes, the director spoke to FANDOM about his hopes for the film series. Were still not there, he says, in reference to the point at which the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film starts. But while theres no plan to remake the original Planet of the Apes, Reeves and the wider team on the franchise are working hard to make sure the rebooted series of films correlates to the existing universe. And while War is perhaps the closest in terms of built-in homages and references to the original films of all three new movies, that means theres still a lot of ground to cover. Reeves says he wants to tackle the world of apes beyond Caesars crew, the idea of which is broached in War with the introduction of Bad Ape, a chimp who had been raised in captivity. Bad Ape is really hes critical to this story but hes actually a seed thats planted that sort of says that thats a widening up of the world, explains Reeves. Its not just Caesars apes, there are other apes elsewhere  and those apes havent had the benefit of Caesars leadership. And so who knows what theyre like, and they certainly wouldnt necessarily have the level of empathy and integrity that hes tried to instil in his family of apes. So future conflicts might not just be human and ape. Reeves is interested in exploring our own natures further, which the rebooted Apes franchise allows him to do. Youre looking into an ape and youre recognising yourself. Were holding up a mirror to who we are. Thats what Id want to continue to explore, he says. Whats fun is that the original film represents an end point and once you know the ending, the story stops being about what happens at the end, it starts being about how do you get from here to there. And that is how we get to explore things about who we are and our nature because its about character, its about motivation, its about philosophy. Reeves points out that the world still looks so different from the world presented in the 1968 Planet of the Apes, in which humans are kept as cattle by the dominant apes, who wear clothes  a concept were introduced to in War through Bad Ape. The world of Rise looks nothing like that movie, but neither do the worlds of Dawn or War, says Reeves. Caesars apes dont look like those apes. So, how do we get from here to there? What transpires that turns them into the kind of captors of the humans that they are? Because Caesars apes still have much more empathy than the apes of the original, so its a journey that I think could be really cool to explore. War For the Planet of the Apes hits screens in the UK on July 11 and in the US on July 14.

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Director Colin Trevorrow is about to start principal photography on Episode IX, so while we had him cornered during Book of Henry press, FANDOM wanted to ask him something Star Wars-related.Unfortunately, he couldn't get into specifics about the forthcoming movie, so we went down a more general route, asking him who his favourite Star Wars character of all time is. And the answer was somewhat unexpected..."I was a Star Wars kid  thats all I thought about and thats all I cared about for a huge chunk of time and while I love all the characters, to me my favourite character is The Force. Im one of those people  and I know that were a special few  but there are some who do believe that the galaxy is bound together by an energy field that binds every living thing and I think that those who do believe that have a connection to Star Wars that takes one step further beyond the love of these characters, the love of this world, of these aliens, of this galaxy. Its something thats a little more spiritual and a little bit deeper, and its something thats important to me."

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Glass  the Sequel to Both Unbreakable and Split  Will Not be HorrorJason Blum  producer of horror hit Split and its recently announced sequel Glass  says the follow-up will not be a horror film. The forthcoming flick will serve as sequel to both Split AND Unbreakable, with James McAvoys character from the former and Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jacksons characters from the latter coming face-to-face.Blum was initially hesitant to reveal anything about the film when we asked him what audiences should expect from Glass.A great movie came the response. I say anything more, Night would behead me, so I cant talk about it. He has a story  the script is not done, but I know what the story is.When we pushed him on the matter however - asking if Glass would be more superhero movie of horror - Blum said I cant answer that question, but I appreciate you trying before belatedly adding Its not a horror movie I will tell you that. Its nothing to do with horror. Not a horror movie. Nothing to do with horror.So does that mean Glass will be a superhero movie? Who knows. But we now we know what it definitely WONT be.

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