In being the second installment of a reboot franchise Dawn takes place a decade after the events of Rise. Caesar is now seen leading thousands of apes, that hunt, ride horses, communicate through sign language, and wield heavy weaponry in the forest isolated from the confines of the humans. The peace however, is indefinite as Dreyfus, who is played by Gary Oldman, sends a small group of humans into the forest to reach out to Caesar in order to restore an hydroelectric dam that supplies electrical power for the humans. Consequently a bond is quickly formed with the humans. That Koba,(a close ally