Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is on the way next year from 20th Century Studios, a brand new movie that takes place “many years after” the events of War for the Planet of the Apes. Along with a new image, below, unveiled by EW comes the tease that this new entry has the potential to launch a new multi-movie saga.

Director Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will release in theaters May 24, 2024.

The new film is “set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.”

Speaking with EW, Ball discussed the film’s sequel potential: “We don’t want to be presumptuous. Whether this movie is successful is up to the movie gods,” he told the outlet. “But we certainly think there is a lot more story to be told, not just in the Planet of the Apes legacy of it all, but in terms of these characters we’ve created and the arcs that we’re thinking about. So, yeah, we’ve got good ideas for what would come next.”

Owen Teague (“IT”), Freya Allan (“The Witcher”), Kevin Durand (Locke & Key”), Peter Macon (“Shameless”), and William H. Macy (“Fargo”) star in the new movie.

Ball also revealed that Teague portrays protagonist chimpanzee called Noa, with Durand playing the villainous chimp Proximus.

The screenplay is by Josh Friedman (“War of the Worlds”) and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (“Avatar: The Way of Water”) and Patrick Aison (“Prey”), based on characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and the producers are Wes Ball, Joe Hartwick, Jr. (“The Maze Runner”), Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Jason Reed (“Mulan”), with Peter Chernin (the “Planet of the Apes” trilogy) and Jenno Topping (“Ford v. Ferrari”) serving as executive producers.

This epic story began with Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel La Planète des singes, and 20th Century Fox has distributed multiple different movies dating back to the original in 1968. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes arrives in the wake of Rupert Wyatt and Matt Reeves’ trilogy that began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes in 2011 and came to end with 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes.

Soona (Lydia Peckham), Noa (Owen Teague), and Anaya (Travis Jeffery) in ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS