What’s Next for the New Planet of the Apes Franchise?

The Apes franchise has an entire future to map out.

Where is its next stop?

We look at its past to try and find its future.

Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Both Serkis and director Matt Reeves are contracted to return.

But what is that exactly and how will he get there?

And what is the long-range future for theApesseries?

The Earth is destroyed in the year 3955 with Taylor himself pulling the trigger.

Is Caesar crying because he knows this idyll will not last?

And the ultimate end of that story isPlanet of the Apes.

But that history altered byConquest also originally suggested that humankind fell in the 25thcentury.

So what will we see inWar of the Planet of the Apes?

Lets assume that Reeves jumps ahead another 10 years or so, as he did betweenRiseandDawn.

One of those factions might come into possession of nuclear weapons and initiate a nuclear exchange with the others.

Caesars personal arc could be one of compassion vs. cold-blooded survival.

Does he even have the right to make that decision?