I was surprised to see the next Planet of the Apes movie is apparently a reboot that isn't going to continue the story from Kingdom. What is that?

I could understand if Kingdom did poorly, but I think it was pretty well received and it has a major cliffhanger. I'm hoping something got crossed up in the reporting and this gets cleared up.

I'm always going to be down for new apes, but this does seem like a major misstep and goes against the spirit of the franchise. They always had crazy cliffhangers that they resolved!