The question of what Noa saw through the telescope at the end of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes continues to haunt Owen Teague. The actor played the newest lead ape in the Planet of the Apes franchise and starred in the recent hit. It takes place generations after Caesar’s death. Towards the end, Noa excitedly looks through a telescope and sees a strange discovery, but the audience is never quite shown what Noa is actually looking at. The mystery continues to endure.

In an interview with Forbes, Teague elected to dismiss one possible option. While some theories concluded that Noa saw the Icarus, the ship that carried the original human stars of 1968’s Planet of the Apes, Teague revealed that they likely did not see the astronauts returning home. Because they are too early in the Planet of the Apes timeline, it has to be another distant discovery. Check out his full quote below:

“I don’t think they see the Icarus because timeline-wise we’re not far enough in the future yet to be there. I believe the ’68 movie happens in 3,000-something [3978]. It’s way in the future. You can see the time in the crash-landing scene. We’re only 300 or 400 hundred years after Caesar so we’re in 2300 or 2400, so I don’t think we’re there yet. I don’t want to be there yet because we have a long way to go to get to the ’68 Apes movie society. I hope at some point it links up and I want it to link up. I want to see what Noa’s role is in the creation of the Dr. Zaius-kind of world because in Kingdom we introduce the idea of the Lawgiver as Raka calls Caesar the Lawgiver. [It makes me wonder] how does that term get carried down through the generations? What does Noa do with that term? I don’t think it’s the Icarus. I think it’s more of a metaphorical thing. It’s like they both know that there is more out there and Noa has seen it through that telescope. Noa has begun to learn history. He’s beginning to understand the world and even at the end of the movie he fully doesn’t get what’s going on. He doesn’t know the true history. He hasn’t read books but he knows that he can and he can find out. The same is true of Mae in that apes are not what she thought. There are a lot of conflicting ideas at the end and I think that’s what that ending means.”

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Source: Forbes