A new full-length trailer for this summer's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is here—and it's not monkeying around. Fueled by vindictive desperation and the inevitability of all-out primate war, it's the most intense look yet at what is coming in director Matt Reeves' flick.
The sequel to 2011's spine-chilling Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn takes place ten years after its predecessor. Caesar and his tribe have colonized the Muir Woods just north of San Francisco and now they are all living in peace, learning to read and write. It's all going wonderfully until, naturally, some surviving humans (in Rise, remember, a virus was released that killed most of them) stumble upon the primates in the woods and proceed to shout, "We don't mean any harm!" while simultaneously training gigantic hunting rifles on the lot of them.
There are peacemakers like Ellie (Keri Russell) and Malcolm (Jason Clarke), but the bellicose rage of folks like Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) and others who have lost loved ones thanks to the virus—which they are blaming on the apes—overpowers any sympathies for the apes. This, of course, leaves the apes absolutely no choice but to defend themselves and, well, we all know where this is going.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters July 11, but the war, as Caesar grunts, "has already begun."
