With Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, this beloved, long-running sci-fi franchise has finally hit double digit movies, with the modern iteration of the series running for nearly as many films (4) as the franchise's original run back in the 1960s and '70s (5). While the first three movies in the rebooted series focused on the very beginning of the ape takeover of Earth, Kingdom jumps forward in time by "many generations," taking us closer to the status quo of the original film.

For Kingdom director Wes Ball, who previously handled that same duty on all three Maze Runner films and is also directing the upcoming Legend of Zelda movie, that time skip is a significant move toward the endgame he wants for the series: to close the franchise at the same place it began, with 20th century astronaut Charlton Heston crash landing on future Earth without having a clue what's been going on.

We're not there yet, of course--there aren't any crash-landing spaceships in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. While this is the fourth movie in the rebooted franchise, it's really the beginning of a new era for the apes, with the previous three movies serving as the background lore for what's going on in the present.