Empire of the Planet of the Apes

Empire of the Planet of the Apes is a an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman. The sequel to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), it is the fifth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and the eleventh film overall. It stars Owen Teague as Noa alongside Freya Allan, Peter Macon and Dichen Lachman. The film takes place five years after the events of Kingdom and follows the chimpanzee Noa and his clan trying to live according to Caesar's ways, while a group of humans want to reclaim the planet that once was theirs.
A sequel, tentatively titled Fall of the Planet of the Apes, is currently in development.
=== Plot ===
Five years after the events of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Noa lives peacefully with his clan in the forest. One day, a group of humans attack and capture a few apes outside the village, including Noa's girlfriend Soona.
Noa, Anaya and other apes track the humans down to their headquarters set in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where they are also captured. In prison, Noa reunites with Raka, who explains him the situation: the humans are conducting experiments on the apes in order to find a cure to the virus that almost wipe them out from Earth a few centuries ago.
Noa and Raka also reunites with Mae, who was demoted to a prison guard position after being contaminated by the virus during the mission she was previously sent on. Noa and Raka convince her to help them free the emprisoned apes, which she agrees to do.
After releasing Soona and the other inmates from their cell, Noa says that he wants to free all the imprisoned apes in the camp. Despite Mae's protests, Noa breaks into the lab in order to free the remaining apes, but the humans spot them and raise the alarm.
As they try to escape the camp, Mae locks herself in the room containing all the antidote samples, threatening the humans to blow it up. They try to stop her but Mae blows up the lab, giving the apes enough time to escape.
Back to the village, Noa and Raka meditate about the sacrifice made by Maeve in order to save them. Noa concludes that humans are not all bad, much to Raka’s satisfaction.
In the ruins of Fort Wayne, it is shown that Mae and other humans have survived the collapse of the building, having developed telekinetic powers after being exposed to the cure.
=== Cast ===
==== Apes ====
* Owen Teague as Noa, a chimpanzee hunter and the leader of the falconry ape clan
* Peter Macon as Raka, a wise and virtuous Bornean orangutan and Noa's ally
* Lydia Peckham as Soona, a female chimpanzee and Noa's love interest
* Travis Jeffery as Anaya, a male chimpanzee and Noa's best friend
* Sara Wiseman as Dar, Noa's chimpanzee mother
==== Humans ====
* Freya Allan as Mae, a young woman previously sent to retrieve a deciphering key
* Dichen Lachman as Korina, human leader of the satellite base