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Hanging around: how Planet of the Apes became Hollywood’s most resilient franchise
The success of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes shows how, for almost 60 years, the series has managed to sustain audience interest
How the series manages to recover from that early blow involves time travel and a continuing question of whether a grim future for human and/or ape-kind is inevitable, or something that can be altered with more peaceful intentions. The older films’ progressively diminished budgets afforded the film-makers some major creative pivots and potentially audience-alienating risks, especially in establishing the many ways that humans might bring themselves to the brink of extinction. At the same time, their more staid plotting is also a form of evolution; they’re adapting to sustain themselves in a different cinematic environment, telling more familiar stories while still managing to push the experimental elements of constructing movies around photorealistic animal characters.
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