John Paesano was assigned as the composer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, marking his fourth collaboration with Wes Ball after working on the Maze Runner film trilogy (2014–2018).

He is the third composer after Patrick Doyle and Michael Giacchino, who scored the predecessors in the Planet of the Apes reboot film series.

[2] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "John Paesano’s full-bodied orchestral score propels things along with a robust emotional charge".

[7] The Film Stage was critical of the score, saying that it "infrequently ushers in twangy guitar strums that make its genre ambitions not just nakedly apparent, but embarrassing".

[8] Zanobard Reviews wrote "John Paesano’s Kingdom of the Planet Of The Apes is an impressive score, forming a pretty perfect bridge between Michael Giacchino’s wondrously serene and Jerry Goldsmith’s iconically eerie prior works for the franchise while also introducing some excellent new themes of its own, and binding it all together in an Apes musical tapestry that’s more than worthy of the franchise.