The immediately arresting image of apes riding horses has been a visual staple of Planet of the Apes throughout its various permutations. In the clip, the grimly determined alpha chimpanzee Caesar, his orangutan confidant Maurice, and a blond human child journey on horseback across an otherwise empty shore, where wet sands glisten against dawn light. One of the teaser trailers for director Matt Reeves’s War for the Planet of the Apes begins with a sequence that echoes the beachside finale of Planet of the Apes, the 1968 film from which the longstanding cinematic franchise has evolved. War for the Planet of the Apes, directed by Matt Reeves © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Still from War for the Planet of the Apes.
