Every year the release of the big Christmas movies also marks when studios start releasing trailers and posters for the films they hope will be tearing up the box office this summer. In the last week we’ve had promos for the likes of Amazing Spider-man 2 and Godzilla, and now Fox is promising that next Tuesday we’ll get our first proper look at Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.
Ahead of that a quartet of posters have been released, which you can see above and below.
Here’s the 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.’
It’ll be in cinemas next July.
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