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Jeff Spry

What did Noa see in the telescope in 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?'

An intelligent ape stares at a planetary mobile.

Space travel and "The Planet of the Apes" have been linked since the franchise's launch in 1968, but the latest entry has us wondering if astronauts may return and asking a key question: Just what did the ape Noa see through the telescope at the iconic Griffith Observatory? 

The telescope scenes are just some of the foreshadowing clues in director Wes Ball's new "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" that have online theorists, armchair screenwriters and sci-fi speculators going bananas over the prospect of the franchise launching back to the stars. They hint that the next installment of this fresh trilogy, which would begin hundreds of years after the reign of Caesar, could indeed destined for the heavens. Below are the places we gleaned insights to partially support that theory. 

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