Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director Wes Ball recently shared some additional details about the story’s main hero, Noa. Speaking to GamesRadar, the director says the character is compared to iconic heroes like Frodo Baggins The Lord of the Rings and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars.
He explained how that happened: “Noa fits that archetype. She’s a new character that we can identify with and like and respect because she’s incredibly kind and gentle. But she’s going to go through this big transformation, or at least the beginning of one in this film, where that innocence is robbed from him a little.”
This film will begin a completely new chapter in the series Planet of the Apes saga, picking up 300 years after the conclusion of War for the Planet of the Apes. Ball previously explained that he wanted the film to have some of him Star Wars in it and a younger spirit, saying:
“When I started working on it, I said, ‘I feel like Apes needs a little Star Wars.’ It’s all still very much grounded in reality, but it’s essentially a quest narrative. Our main character is the young and impressionable Noa [Owen Teague] – meets characters along the way and awakens when he finds himself in a place that will test him, and ultimately becomes his true self. We didn’t make fun of it, or Disneyfied it, if I may say so! But we brought a younger spirit.”
The film is set “several generations into the future following Caesar’s reign, where apes are the dominant species and live in harmony and humans are reduced to living in the shadows. As a tyrannical new ape leader builds his empire, a young ape embarks on a harrowing journey that will lead him to question everything he knows about the past and make choices that will define a future for both apes and humans.
The cast includes Owen Teague (It), Freya Allen (The witcher), AND Peter Macon (The Orville). The film’s screenplay comes from Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa AND Amanda Silver (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), AND Patrick Aison (Prey). She is also a co-star Travis Jeffrey (Uninterrupted), Neil Sandilands (Sweetness), Sara Wisemann (One of us is lying), Ras-Samuel Welda’abzgi (The clearing), Lydia Peckham (Cowboy bebop), AND Kevin Durand.
The film will be released in theaters on May 24, 2024.
Source: Geek Tyrant
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