Wes Ball’s new Apes film starring Owen Teague, Freya Allan, and Kevin Durand is out now.
“It’s like the beginning of the next one almost more than the end of this one.” That’s director Wes Ball talking to io9 about the choices made at the end of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is in theaters now. And while its story of Noa, Mae, Proximus Caesar, and the Eagle Clan reaches a conclusion, the film also offers tantalizing teases of what could be next, and it’s time to break it down.
At a certain point in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, we learn that Mae (Freya Allan) is part of a human group that has somehow survived the mutated Simian Flu that devolved humans into feral beings. From there, we infer that a group of them were sent out on a mission—and were subsequently all murdered, aside from Mae. Alone, but still determined, she then seeks out Noa’s help. Mae tells him the mission is to enter the mysterious bunker Proximus and his apes are attempting to get into, to find a book that will allow humans to use their voices again. “A book can do this?” asks Noa, which is our question too.
The “book” in question is later revealed as not an actual book. It’s some kind of computer drive. My first thought was “What is she going to do with that in a world where humans barely exist?” Well, after Mae floods the bunker, almost killing not just Proximius, but her allies in Noa and Eagle Clan, we see her go home.
