A new trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was released last night at the Super Bowl, revealing Easter eggs galore and a closer look at the movie’s formidable new foe: an ape called Proximus. GamesRadar+ was invited to an exclusive preview screening of the new trailer in Los Angeles, where director Wes Ball had lots to say about the story and its intriguing new ape villain.
“Proximus [played by Kevin Durand] is a fantastically cool character,” admits Ball. “He is a fan of humans. You see it in the trailer. He says how they were capable of great things. ‘They could level mountains. They could speak across oceans. They could fly like eagles fly.’ He's fascinated by what humans were and how they fell so far, so he studies them. He knows more about humans than any other ape in our story.”
