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Marvel has regress to the originalPlanet of the Apesfilm continuity , with a prequel set immediately before the events of the 1968 film – but while the miniseries seems to be leading directly into the arrival of Charleton Heston ’s character Taylor on the copycat - live future Earth , the series could instead be head for a massive swerve . By toss off off Taylor too soon , Marvel could plant up its ownApescontinuity .
mind the Planet of the Apes#1 – save by Marc Guggenheim , with art by Alvaro Lopez , color by Alex Guimaraes , and lettering by Joe Caramagna – open up with panels from Marvel ’s 1975 film version , which cast the ensuing story as happening immediately before Taylor ’s spaceship crashes back on Earth , inciting the events of the celluloid , as well as its original four sequels .
While Marvel appear to be setting up the firstApesto stay canon , the company couldreset the franchise ’s continuityfrom there – and the respectable way to do that would be toss off off Taylor .
Marvel Should Write Out Taylor To Open Up New Possibilities For The Ape Franchise
At the end of the 1970 sequel , Beneath the Planet of the Apes , Taylor destroy the planet by activating a day of reckoning turkey ; subsequent installments shift their focus to the New era of the 1970s , with the third film , Escape , sending Cornelius and Zira back in meter . This has moderate to a variety ofnarrative statis for theApesfranchise , the most expedient answer to which would befor Marvel to kill off Taylor and erase the event ofBeneath , and the ensuing sequels , from itsApescontinuity .
rewrite Taylor ’s dying so that he does n’t take the entirePlanet , and its future tense , with him , would signal Marvel ’s intent to pursue the tale theory underlying in the original tale ’s premise , in a way unlike any priorApesstory . WithBeware the Planet of the Apespositioning " Taylor ’s ill - fated landing place " as happening " soon,“as a overture to its own original plot of land , a follow - up serial could likewise set forth in the prompt aftermath of the first picture show , and vary the persistence from that decimal point .
Taylor Still Has A Role To Play On The Planet – But He Is No Longer The Protagonist
Another possibility is that Marvel could make the truly drastic storytelling decision to alter the events ofPlanet of the Apes – though it seems unlike the company would not want to comprise the film’siconic Statue of Liberty cease , somethingBeware#1 already mirrored with itsreveal of Yankee Stadium . The surest way would be to hit Taylor early in a sequel series , but not before he wager a crucial office , if not the key purpose he originally occupied .
Rather than the booster of theApesfranchise , Taylor should be used as a destabilizing element in copycat society .
As the laterApesinstallments from the former ' 70s , and the subsequent reboot serial publication , have proven , Apesstories run advantageously when there is a human element to them , while the stress stay on the emulator . Marvel should recognize this , and expend the Taylor character consequently to contribute the conflicts in ape society to a boiling head , then dispose of him . In this way , thePlanet of the Apesfranchise could move forward in a way it has been ineffectual to for well over fifty year .
Beware the Planet of the Apes#1is uncommitted now from Marvel Comics .
Beware the Planet of the Apes#1 ( 2024 )
