X-Men: Days of Future Past won’t be 20th Century Fox’s only sequel to a prequel this year; surprising audiences two summers ago, the apes will return to theaters in a few short months, this time having taken over much of the world. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes lost Rupert Wyatt, but gained the talented Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) as director, and today brings a new look at the film.

In a brief TV spot we can see the ape army in full force, with Andy Serkis (Caesear) telling Empire (who have also debuted a few stills), “This is now a community of about 2,000 apes. For the first eight years [after the humanity-devastating virus], the apes were looking down from Muir Woods to San Francisco and could see lights and fires, but now it’s gone very quiet. Until this day in our film when this small band of humans comes up. That’s suddenly a huge, dividing moment in the lives of these apes. There are some particularly strong reactions to the humans and that’s the course of the story.”

Check out the spot below, along with a new poster from Collider, for the film starring Jason Clarke, Keri Russell, Gary Oldman, Judy Greer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Toby Kebbell, Kirk Acevedo, and Enrique Murciano.

Synopsis:

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes opens on July 11th.

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