The first trailer for War for the Planet of the Apes once again asks “What if humans and apes could be friends?”

It has been seven years since the last competition. kingdom of the planet of the apes Once again we are invited into a world where apes dominate.

Although we’re only seven years old, some 300 years have passed between the events of War for the Planet of the Apes and the upcoming fourth War for the Planet of the Apes, with apes now becoming the dominant species and humans becoming of humanity. Closer to the Neanderthal lifestyle. For the most part, the apes are perfectly happy with this arrangement, led by their bonobo ruler Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand), although the film’s ape protagonist Noah (Owen Teague) isn’t So believe it.

You can see in the trailer above that Noah begins to question the ethics of hunting humans – which is fair enough – while also beginning to piece together the fact that the planet’s history isn’t quite what he was taught. Freya Allen, who you may know from Netflix’s The Witcher series as Princess Cirilla, also stars in the film, and according to Caesar, she appears to be smarter than other humans, and the trailer soon follows Turned to Noah and joined forces with women. At this point, ape vs. man vs. ape war seems inevitable.

The Batman’s Matt Reeves directed 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes, which Wes Ball will direct. Ball directed the Maze Runner movies, but the last thing you might have heard of his name is the live-action Legend of Zelda movie Nintendo is working on. The Zelda movie is Ball’s next project after War for the Planet of the Apes, so it might be a while before we see anything concrete.

“War for the Planet of the Apes” will be released in theaters on May 10.