“War has… already begun. Ape started war. And human… Human will not forgive.”

The ending of ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ made it clear that war would be coming in the third installment. According to Collider, the next film will be titled ‘War of the Planet of the Apes.’

In ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) told Malcolm (Jason Clarke) that the military was on its way to San Francisco. In an international tailer, there was a shot of a warship arriving, which was later cut from the final version.

In an interview with Collider, director Matt Reeves said that he wanted to show the war between humans and apes, but didn’t want to box himself in for the next film, so they made some changes to the end of Dawn:

“We actually did have an ending that went one step further, and I realized late in the game, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t want us to be boxed in this way. I think we should be left with a more open—knowing that we were going to figure out what the next story is—I didn’t want to in a way narrow our options.’ I wanted to open them up.

What was really most important was to leave you in that emotional space with Caesar, which is the ending of the movie that you’ve seen, and know that the future is coming, but not already be at that future. Because the moment is really about the moment that’s past. It could have been the planet of the humans and the apes, and that parting between Caesar and Malcolm is a very emotional moment to me, and I didn’t want something that distracted and became something else.

So yeah, there actually was another version of the movie, and that version never even got fully realized. We cut it late, but the effects for it weren’t realized for it either.”

‘War of the Planet of the Apes’ is set to release on July 14th, 2017.