DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Short-Film Prequels. #DawnofApes

With Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes picking up ten years after Rise left off, you might be curious as to what exactly has occurred in the intervening period. As luck – and 20th Century Fox’s marketing bods – would have it, there are three new viral videos showing exactly that. And, from humanity’s point of view, it’s not too pretty. Ape-manity, meanwhile, is out there... biding its time.

Motherboard, Vice’s production arm, is behind these three virals that offer a glimpse into the decade elapsed, as well as a further video that takes us to an ape testing facility in Liberia.


The standout, Story Of Gun, boasts obvious echoes of Winchester 73 in charting the breakdown of law and order in society as shotgun passes from one pair of hands to another. And another...

See all the stories after the Jump...


The intervening period has brought the spread of the Simian Flu. First isolated cases, then an epidemic and finally a full-blow pandemic has devastated the human population and brought anarchy and despair. Looting is everyone and the penalty for just about any crime is death.


Into this breach scampers an army of apes, led by Andy Serkis’s Caesar who negotiate a fragile-looking truce with the human survivors, Jason Clarke’s scientist Malcolm and Gary Oldman’s jaundiced Dreyfus among them. Judging by the latest trailer, war will be hard to avoid.


Island of the Apes (Trailer)The crew goes to Liberia to discover "Monkey Island," a place solely inhabited by former lab-tested chimpanzees. We talk to the fearful locals and meet the scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago.


The Lab Apes of Liberia-The Real Planet of the Apes (Documentary)

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