In-depth discussion of the simian blockbusterFirst there was Rise and now there is Dawn. In the future, there will be war - though it's not clear if the title of the film that tells that story will actually be War Of The Planet Of The Apes. We have our fingers crossed, anyway.Speaking to the director of the sequel, Matt Reeves, the Empire Podcast team got the inside scoop on the making of the film, the cut scenes and the ideas that mattered to Reeves and his team. We then spend a good hour talking through the ins-and-outs of it all, from the CGI to that glorious final shot.

Concept Art by Kelton Cram 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 is being directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In), from a screenplay written by Mark Bomback, Scott Z. Burns, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.

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Sometimes America makes the right choice at the multiplex, and we're certainly not talking about the bonkers opening for "Transformers: Age Of Extinction." Instead, this past weekend moviegoers gave a vote of confidence to Matt Reeves' smart and accomplished "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes." That certainly means Fox will be ready to make a third entry in the series (indeed, they've already dated it for 2016) and 'Dawn' ends with Jason Clarke's Malcom warning Caesar that the military are on the way. In short, the apes battle for survival has only begun.