This is revealed in the opening credits, the film itself opens on the apes now living in the Muir woods. Much of humanity is decimated by the simian flu. Like Rise before it Dawn constitutes as kind of guerrilla war on the franchise, attacking not its most iconic and memorable stronghold over the cultural imagination ( Planet of the Apes and its Statue of Liberty Scene), but the weakest points, the points where the gap between concept and execution is wide enough to ride an ape army on horseback through.ĭawn takes place ten years after Rise. Must man and ape always be at war? Dawn in some sense addresses the same question, minus the time travel loop and with a much bigger budget.
The central question of Battle, which takes place after Caesar's parents have been sent back in time, is one of repetition and fate. Battle tried to wrestle with the time travel loop and a diminishing budget. Dawn is in some sense a remake of the last and most burdened of these films, Battle for the Planet of the Apes. These allegories have been explored by Eric Greene in his Planet of the Apes as American Myth. One of the real merits of his book is that it shows that the shifting subtexts of the Apes films, from Serling's atom age anxieties of annihilation to the militant racialized revolutionaries of the later films, are less a plan than an attempt to keep up with the shifting readings of the films while still getting a film out on time.
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