Dichen Lachman (“Severance,” “Jurassic World Dominion”) has joined the cast of 20th Century Studios’ “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” which has been shooting around the Disney Studios Australia complex in Sydney, Australia since October and should be wrapping imminently.
Details of the size and nature of her role are unknown. Lachman joins a cast that includes Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Peter Macon, Eka Darville and Kevin Durand in a story that takes place many years after the conclusion of 2017’s “War for the Planet of the Apes”.
Along with the casting announcement, new details about the film’s story have emerged. In the film, numerous ape societies have grown from when the Caesar brought his people to an oasis whilst humans have been reduced to a feral-like existence.
In the years since some groups have never heard of Caesar, while others have contorted his teaching to build burgeoning empires. In this setting, one ape leader begins to enslave other groups in an effort to find leftover human technology.
At the same time another ape, who watched his clan be taken, embarks on a journey to find freedom with a young human woman becoming key to his quest. She has plans of her own though.
Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Patrick Aison pen the script. Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, raised in Adelaide, Australia and residing in Los Angeles, Lachman has built a lengthy film TV career following her breakout on Australian soap “Neighbours” in 2005.
Source: THR
