New 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' Trailer Shows All Out War

20th Century Fox dropped a full trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this morning, a solid five months since the initial teaser. I wrote a lot about Fox’s relative patience in terms of its X-Men: Days of Future Past campaign, and the same goes for this one. Aside from snippets from interviews and teases in various Summer Movie Previews, there wasn’t much known about the plot. What we now do know is that if the first film was a loose variation on Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, this one is closer to Battle for the Planet of the Apes. What’s interesting, especially for a franchise that already has a third entry marked for release July 29, 2016, is that this second film seems to have skipped a film in the larger story.20th Century Fox just released the second trailer for "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes." The film is the sequel to 2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" which starred James Franco. While Franco will appear via flashback video in this film, Gary Oldman and Jason Clarke ("Zero Dark Thirty") will star along with Keri Russell ("The Americans") continuing the story of Caesar, the ape from the first installment. Here's the synopsis from Fox: "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." In the new trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, our good pal Caesar is still working on his language development, and also working on that thing where he's amassed an army of his own kind that will end up ridding the planet of humans once and for all. At least, that's where we all assume this thing is headed. What with the "Planet of the Apes" in the title and all. For now, though, it looks like Jason Clarke, Keri Russell, and their band of simian-flu survivors are going to try their hand at making peace with the apes. Not if Gary Oldman has anything to say about it, of course.