“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” star Owen Teague teases future of the franchise

"There's a lot of different ways that things could go which is exciting," Teague tells Entertainment Weekly.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

The humans are about to re-take the planet from the apes by the end of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Director Wes Ball's new installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise takes place 300 years after 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes, and in this distant future, apes have fully taken over while humans were believed to be primitive, mute, feral creatures.

But as Nova, real name Mae (Freya Allen), reveals later in the movie, some humans are still just as intelligent and determined as their ancestors to reclaim their place as apex predators in the world. With the help of young chimpanzee hunter Noa (Owen Teague), Mae beat Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand) in the race to get vital information that will help all the isolated, hidden colonies of humans communicate with each other and finally come out of hiding.

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In the film's climax, Mae is able to take an important key from the vault that Proximus Caesar was obsessed with breaking into. After Noa and his clan's eagles kill the brutal, tyrannical ape king, he and Mae say their goodbyes.

Noa leads his clan back home to rebuild their destroyed village, while Mae takes the key back to her people where they are able to install it and bring all the ancient satellites back online, allowing all the other intelligent humans in the world to finally contact each other. This is clearly only the beginning of this new chapter in the franchise.

Now that Noa and Mae have helped usher in a new age of humanity, star Teague hopes to return for another movie and continue this story. "I hope the chances [of returning] are big," he tells Entertainment Weekly. "More than anything, I want to get to do another one of these because it was so much fun. I think it's a really special movie and character — I'm quite attached to Noah."

But where Noa — and the rest of the apes and humans — go from here is hard for Teague to think about. "In terms of what I hope to see — God, it's hard to know where things are going to go," he admits with a laugh. "It depends on what the writers want to do and what story we want to tell next. But I think Noa has figured out who he is in this movie, and he's figured out what's going on in the world. Now he has to figure out what kind of leader he wants to be, and that's going to depend on what the humans do and how they approach this fundamental issue, which is, can apes and humans live together?"

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Now that humans are poised to once again take back control, using the technology Proximus Caesar wanted but failed to get for the apes, Teague is curious to see how that will impact Noa and his clan.

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"I don't know what the humans are going to do, but I think it's going to be really interesting to see Noa get pushed and have to deal with the truth of our history," he says. "I don't know how he'll react. There's a couple ways we could go. It might be that Noa steps up — he's got this beautiful hope within him and maybe he'll follow that. Or maybe Proximus is a louder voice and has influenced Noa to go down a darker road. I don't really know, but where he sits right now, there's a lot of different ways that things could go which is exciting. I can't wait to see what happens with him."

The planet of the apes — and humans — are all watching and waiting.

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