It wouldn’t be a long-running franchise if it didn’t have a needlessly complex timeline of films. With over 50 years of movies to account for, the “Planet of the Apes” films are particularly convoluted – there’s the original series, a floating reboot and a prequel series about to receive it’s fourth entry with “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”
It all tells the story of Earth’s transformation into a society in which apes evolve into the dominant species and humans are rendered mute.