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==Plot==
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Two years following the Battle of San Francisco,{{efn|As depicted in ''[[Dawn of the Planet of the Apes]]'' (2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heavy.com/movies/2017/07/war-for-the-planet-of-apes-how-many-years-before-original-timeline-is-set-year/|title='War for the Planet of the Apes': What Year Does the Original Take Place?|last=Morrow|first=Brendan|work=[[Heavy.com|Heavy]]|date=13 July 2017|access-date=24 June 2018|archive-date=April 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402010531/https://heavy.com/movies/2017/07/war-for-the-planet-of-apes-how-many-years-before-original-timeline-is-set-year/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} a U.S. Army battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" (AΩ) aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon of Alpha Omegas assault an ape outpost, but the apes repel the attack withand kill all but four humans and a donkey gorilla named Red being killed. Caesar releases the captured humans as a peacekeeping gesture, but Red escapes after attacking Winter. WhenCaesar's talkingyoung toson CaesarBlue priorEyes and Rocket return from a scouting expedition to hisreport escapingthey have found an oasis that could serve as a safer home. That night, Redthe Colonel of AΩ leads a refersteam to infiltrate the Colonelcolony asand “thekills KernaCornelia and Blue Eyes, mistaking the latter for Caesar.” Cornelius, Caesar's younger son, manages to survive the attack by hiding while the Colonel escapes.
 
Caesar, followed by Rocket, Maurice, and Luca, decide to serve as decoys while the tribe journeys to the oasis. In an abandoned village, Caesar kills a human in self-defense and finds his mute daughter, whom Maurice takes guardianship of, giving her a rag doll. They encounter Winter, now working for AΩ after giving away their hideout—he had faked the attack by Red and let him escape—and confront him. He reveals that the Colonel's forces are heading north to meet up with the rest of the military. Caesar accidentally kills Winter in retribution for his wife and son, and to prevent him from alerting the soldiers. As they follow the Colonel, Caesar's group discovers several dead soldiers who have been executed by their own troops; a fatally wounded survivor is revealed to be mute, just like the girl. Caesar's group chases someone who has stolen one of their horses and discovers the thief is another intelligent ape, Bad Ape, who matured in isolation. He guides them to a former weapons depot-turned quarantine facility in the mountains that serves as the base for the militia. A human patrol kills Luca, and an enraged Caesar tells Maurice, Rocket, Bad Ape, and the mute girl to turn back. Caesar attempts to infiltrate the base and discovers his tribe has been captured and forced into labor there, before he is caught by Red. Caesar deduces that the militia are using the apes to barricade the facility in order to fend off the incoming military forces, which intend to attack rather than reinforce the militia.
The next day, Caesar's young teenage son, Blue Eyes, and Rocket return from a scouting expedition to report they have found an oasis that could serve as a safer home. But it is quite a long distance away. Winter insists they leave immediately, but his words fall on deaf ears.
 
The Colonel reveals that the Simian Flu virus has mutated, causing infected humans to mentally devolve into primitive animals, depriving them of their intelligence. After killing his infected son, he ordered his own troops to kill any carriers before they could infect others. This led to a conflict with his superiors, who believed the disease could still be cured; as Caesar suspected, the military is coming to forcibly relieve the Colonel of his command. The Colonel ordershas ordered Caesar to be tortured, given no food in order to starvestarving him, and to leaveleaving him exposed to the cold. The mute girl, named Nova by Maurice because of a Chevy Nova vehicle side emblem found in the abandon ski resort, sneaks into the facility to feed Caesar. Rocket allows himself to be captured to prevent Nova from being seen so he and Caesar can formulate a plan to escape. The Colonel later confiscates the doll Nova left for Caesar, but the other apes escape via an underground tunnel.▼
That night, Caesar is awakened by swaths of green lasers emanating from a strong waterfall right next to Caesar’s family’s quarters. Just as he is waking and unseen to Caesar, there are numerous AΩ soldiers rappelling down the inside of the waterfall. Caesar walks to the waterfall, reaches in and takes hold of a thick military type rope. Caesar, sensing an attack, rushes and finds Luca, the head of the tribe’s security unit, and orders him to get all of the security unit together. Suddenly gun shots ring out from the direction of his sleeping wife and children. Caesar begins running quickly to where his family is. As he is running he comes across a AΩ soldier and kills him. The two-way radio the soldier was wearing echos a transmission stating that “King Kong is dead.” Caesar then realizes that a AΩ military team is attacking in order to infiltrate the colony. Once Caesar arrives to where his family is he sees a AΩ soldier, who is later determined to be the Colonel, standing at the cliff’s edge near the waterfall. The Colonel turns around and stares at Caesar intently—Caesar stares back. The Colonel then looks down in his stare to something near Caesar’s feet which Caesar immediately recognizes his wife, Cornelia, and his eldest son, Blue Eyes, who have both been shot multiple times and killed. A look of surprise overcomes the Colonel as he realizes he mistakenly killed the wrong target and not Caesar. The Colonel then opens fire on Caesar who is able to take cover and avoid injury. The Colonel then grabs the rope inside the waterfall, jumps on to it and begins his ascension. In a fit of rage Caesar runs and also jumps on the rope with the Colonel only dangling a few feet above. Caesar is able to knock the Colonel’s rifle from his hands as he was attempting to shoot Caesar. However, the Colonel pulls out a small tactical knife and cuts the rope sending Caesar falling into the spray and water at the bottom of the waterfall. Caesar survives the fall and is able to grab a hold of a rock by the shore of the torrential rapids. Caesar runs back up to where his now slain wife and son are in an attempt to find his younger son, Cornelius, whom Caesar did not see during all the chaos. He orders Luca and his team to search for Cornelius. After Luca and his team leave, Caesar hears a whimper and squeak. Caesar then sees the very young Cornelius’ head peeking from around the corner where he hid when the attack started. Cornelius cries out and Caesar runs to him, picks him up and hugs him tightly.
 
The military arrives and attacks the facility, and the apes are caught in the crossfire. During the chaos, Caesar sneaks into the Colonel's quarters to kill him, only to find that he has been infected by the virus after handling Nova's doll. Caesar refuses to kill the Colonel, instead allowing him to kill himself. Caesar then attempts to destroy a fuel tank but is critically wounded by Preacher, one of the soldiers he released earlier. At the sight of the apes being killed, Red has a change of heart and kills Preacher before being executed. Caesar blows the fuel tank, causing an avalanche that buries both armies, and flees up the trees with the rest of the apes and Nova.▼
Caesar decides to leave the tribe by himself in order to act as a decoy to distract the Colonel and his AΩ army from finding the tribe while the tribe journeys to the oasis. But he is also going to seek out the Colonel in order avenge the death of his wife and son. He orders no one to come with him and he rides off. However, out of loyalty, he is followed by Rocket, Maurice, and Luca. After some arguing back and forth and insistence by Caesar that finding and killing the Colonel was his fight, Caesar allows them to join him. In an abandoned village, Caesar kills a human in self-defense and finds his mute daughter, whom Maurice befriends by giving her a rag doll.
 
Caesar and the group eventually catch up with the Colonel’s camp. They encounter Winter in the mess kitchen washing dishes with the word “Donkey” painted on his back and now working for the AΩ Army after giving away the tribe’s hideout (he had faked the attack by Red and let him escape—and confront Caesar at a later time.) He reveals that the Colonel's forces are heading north to meet up with the rest of the military and the Colonel who was not at the camp. Caesar kills Winter by suffocating him, before he could call out to two AΩ soldiers standing outside the tent for help, in retribution for his wife and son. As they follow they Colonel’s caravan, Caesar and his group discover several dead soldiers who have been executed by their own troops; a fatally wounded survivor is revealed to be mute, just like the girl.
 
Shortly thereafter, Caesar's group chases someone who has stolen one of their horses with attached equipment to an abandon ski resort and discovers the thief is another intelligent ape, Bad Ape, who matured in isolation. After refusing numerous times, he eventually gives in and guides them to a former weapons depot-turned quarantine facility in the mountains that serves as the base for the militia.
 
As the group views the AΩ base from a foothill above, they see it is full of captured apes in a huge and well protected detention pen. Suddenly, a three-man AΩ patrol comes upon Caesar and the group. After the group overcomes and kills the patrol, it is discovered that Luca had been mortally wounded while fighting with and falling on one of soldiers. Luca was stabbed by the soldier’s knife which was affixed to the front of his automatic rifle. An enraged Caesar tells Maurice, Rocket, Bad Ape, and the mute girl to turn back.
 
Caesar attempts to infiltrate the base but discovers his tribe has been captured and is forced to build a wall before he is caught by Red. Caesar deduces that the militia is barricading the facility in defense of the incoming military forces, which intend to attack rather than reinforce the militia.
 
▲The Colonel reveals that the Simian Flu virus has mutated, causing infected humans to mentally devolve into primitive animals, depriving them of their intelligence. After killing his infected son, he ordered his own troops to kill any carriers before they could infect others. This led to a conflict with his superiors, who believed the disease could still be cured; as Caesar suspected, the military is coming to forcibly relieve the Colonel of his command. The Colonel orders Caesar to be tortured, given no food in order to starve him and to leave him exposed to the cold. The mute girl, named Nova by Maurice because of a Chevy Nova vehicle side emblem found in the abandon ski resort, sneaks into the facility to feed Caesar. Rocket allows himself to be captured to prevent Nova from being seen so he and Caesar can formulate a plan to escape. The Colonel later confiscates the doll Nova left for Caesar, but the other apes escape via an underground tunnel.
 
▲The military arrives and attacks the facility and the apes are caught in the crossfire. During the chaos, Caesar sneaks into the Colonel's quarters to kill him, only to find that he has been infected by the virus after handling Nova's doll. Caesar refuses to kill the Colonel, instead allowing him to kill himself. Caesar then attempts to destroy a fuel tank but is critically wounded by Preacher, one of the soldiers he released earlier. At the sight of the apes being killed, Red has a change of heart and kills Preacher before being executed. Caesar blows the fuel tank, causing an avalanche that buries both armies and flees up the trees with the rest of the apes and Nova.
 
The apes and Nova resume their journey to the oasis. As they arrive, Maurice discovers Caesar's wound and promises that Cornelius will know who his father was and what he did for the apes. With his colony safe in their new home, Caesar peacefully succumbs to his wounds and passes away.
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===Development===
[[File:War for the Planet of the Apes in New York Comic Con 2016.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Matt Reeves]], [[Andy Serkis]] and Dylan Clark at [[New York Comic Con]] 2016 for the ''War for the Planet of the Apes'' panel]]
After seeing his cut of ''Dawn'', [[20th Century Fox]] and [[Chernin Entertainment]] signed [[Matt Reeves]] to return as director for a third installment of the reboot series. In January 2014, the studio announced the third film, with Reeves returning to direct and co-write along with Bomback, and Peter Chernin, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver serving as producers.<ref name="Apes3Announcement">{{cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike |url=https://deadline.com/2014/01/planet-of-the-apes-3-matt-reeves-director/ |title=Matt Reeves To Direct 'Planet Of The Apes 3' |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=7 January 2014 |access-date=18 October 2015 |archive-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811214520/http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/planet-of-the-apes-3-matt-reeves-director/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/statuses/423247836466401281 |title=Twitter / ERCboxoffice: The damn dirty apes will return yet again, as UNTITLED PLANET OF THE APES (not the official title) stakes out 7/29/16. |publisher=Twitter.com |date=14 January 2014 |access-date=11 June 2014 |archive-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315221049/https://twitter.com/ercboxoffice/statuses/423247836466401281 |url-status=live }}</ref> During an interview in mid-November 2014 with [[MTV]], Andy Serkis said they did not know the next film's setting. "...It could be five years after the event. It could be the night after the events of where we left ''Dawn''."<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news | first1=Kevin | last1=P. Sullivan | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2004268/andy-serkis-planet-of-the-apes-trilogy/ | title=Current 'Planet Of The Apes' Series Might Not Be Just A Trilogy | publisher=[[MTV News]] | date=20 November 2014 | access-date=22 November 2014 | archive-date=July 30, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730223110/http://www.mtv.com/news/2004268/andy-serkis-planet-of-the-apes-trilogy/ | url-status=livedead }}</ref> In May 2015, the title was first given as ''War of the Planet of the Apes''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://collider.com/new-planet-of-the-apes-movie-title-revealed/ | title=New Planet of the Apes Movie Title Revealed | author=Matt Goldberg | work=Collider | date=May 14, 2015 | access-date=14 May 2015 | archive-date=May 16, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516091202/http://collider.com/new-planet-of-the-apes-movie-title-revealed/ | url-status=live }}</ref> By October 2015, it had been retitled as ''War for the Planet of the Apes''.<ref name="ZahnCast" /> When director Reeves and screenwriter Bomback came on board to helm ''Dawn'', the film already had a release date, which led to an accelerated production schedule. However, with the third installment, Fox wanted to give the duo plenty of time to write and make the film. Taking advantage of this, the two bonded with each other more than before.<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/movies/2017/04/28/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-matt-reeves-influences/|title=War for the Planet of the Apes director reveals films that influenced the sequel|author=Darren Franich|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=28 April 2017|access-date=1 May 2017}}</ref>
 
In interviews for ''Dawn'', Reeves talked about the inevitable war Caesar would have with the humans: "As this story continues, we know that war is not avoided by the end of ''Dawn''. That is going to take us into the world of what he is grappling with. Where he is going to be thrust into circumstances that he never, ever wanted to deal with, and was hoping he could avoid. And now he is right in the middle of it. The things that happen in that story test him in huge ways, in the ways in which his relationship with Koba haunts him deeply. It's going to be an epic story. I think you've probably read that I sort of described it where in the first film was very much about his rise from humble beginnings to being a revolutionary. The second movie was about having to rise to the challenge of being a great leader in the most difficult of times. This is going to be the story that is going to cement his status as a seminal figure in ape history, and sort of leads to an almost biblical status. He is going to become like a mythic ape figure, like [[Moses]]."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.slashfilm.com/matt-reeves-planet-of-the-apes-remake/ | title=Matt Reeves Talks About New 'Apes' Films Eventually Reaching the 1968 'Planet of the Apes' Story | author=Germain Lussier | publisher=Slashfilm | date=4 December 2014 | access-date=18 October 2015 | archive-date=October 28, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028032429/https://www.slashfilm.com/matt-reeves-planet-of-the-apes-remake/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Sequel==
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According to screenwriter Rick Jaffa, a version of the spaceship from the 1968 ''Planet of the Apes'' under the name ''[[Icarus (Planet of the Apes)|Icarus]]'' was in ''[[Rise of the Planet of the Apes]]'' (2011) as a deliberate hint to a possible sequel readapting the events of the original film, something the end of ''War'' also implies, featuring a younger version of the character Nova.<ref>{{cite web |website=IGN |url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/116/1161176p3.html |last=Collura |first=Scott |title=Visit the Planet of the Apes |date=14 April 2011 |access-date=16 April 2011 |archive-date=August 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820121155/http://movies.ign.com/articles/116/1161176p3.html |url-status=live }}</ref> During an interview of Andy Serkis with [[MTV]] in mid-November 2014, Serkis talked about possible sequels: "It might be three films, It could be four. It could be five. Who knows? The journey will continue."<ref>{{cite news|last1=P. Sullivan|first1=Kevin|title=Current 'Planet Of The Apes' Series Might Not Be Just A Trilogy|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2004268/andy-serkis-planet-of-the-apes-trilogy/|access-date=22 November 2014|publisher=mtv.com|date=20 November 2014|archive-date=July 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730223110/http://www.mtv.com/news/2004268/andy-serkis-planet-of-the-apes-trilogy/|url-status=livedead}}</ref> By October 2016, it was reported that a fourth ''Planet of the Apes'' film was being discussed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-sequels/|title='War for the Planet of the Apes' Director Matt Reeves "Absolutely" Has Ideas About Where the Story Goes Next|last=Han|first=Angie|work=SlashFilm.com|date=11 October 2016|access-date=13 August 2017|archive-date=April 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407213334/https://www.slashfilm.com/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-sequels/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Owen|first=Luke|title=Planet of the Apes 4 already being developed|url=http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/10/planet-of-the-apes-4-already-being-developed/|access-date=13 October 2016|work=Flickering Myth|date=12 October 2016}}</ref>
 
Shortly before the release of ''War'' in July 2017, Reeves said that he expressed interest in making more ''Apes'' films and that Steve Zahn, who played Bad Ape in the film, had set up a story for further sequels.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bianco |first1=Julia |title=Matt Reeves talks about the future of the Planet of the Apes franchise |url=https://www.looper.com/73308/future-planet-of-the-apes-franchise/ |access-date=19 April 2019 |work=Looper.com |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419185950/https://www.looper.com/73308/future-planet-of-the-apes-franchise/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=How Bad Ape Sets Up War for the Planet of the Apes Sequels |url=https://screenrant.com/war-planet-apes-sequels-bad-ape/ |access-date=19 April 2019 |work=ScreenRant |date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419185954/https://screenrant.com/war-planet-apes-sequels-bad-ape/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Erik |title=Matt Reeves Says He Wants to Make More 'Planet of the Apes' Movies |url=https://www.fandango.com/movie-news/matt-reeves-says-he-wants-to-make-more-planet-of-the-apes-movies-752445 |access-date=19 April 2019 |work=Fandango |date=11 July 2017 |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419185950/https://www.fandango.com/movie-news/matt-reeves-says-he-wants-to-make-more-planet-of-the-apes-movies-752445 |url-status=live }}</ref> Writer Mark Bomback hinted that more films would be possible, saying, "Truthfully, we haven't had those kinds of conversations. I've been working on these films for about seven years now. I'm ready to take a breather and let things rest a bit."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Britt |first1=Ryan |title='Planet of the Apes' Screenwriter Explains Where a Sequel Could Go Next |url=https://www.inverse.com/article/34287-war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-sequels-mark-bomback-caesar |access-date=19 April 2019 |work=Inverse |language=en |archive-date=July 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728134209/https://www.inverse.com/article/34287-war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-sequels-mark-bomback-caesar |url-status=live }}</ref>
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