The Planet of the Apes franchise has endured for over six decades through seven books, 10 feature films and two TV series, so you’d be forgiven for losing track of where its centuries-spanning sci-fi story stands in 2024.
The latest entry in the Planet of the Apes saga, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, comes 61 years after the publication of Pierre Boulle's novel La Planète des singes, and 56 years after Charlton Heston first crash-landed on an ape-covered Earth in the original Planet of the Apes movie. But the new film’s apocalyptic premise remains more or less identical to that which fascinated audiences way back in 1968.
