"It has begun," says director Matt Reeves. And with that, comes a tweet of the first ever image from War For The Planet Of The Apes - either Apes 3 or Apes 9 depending on your preference.
It's a figure riding a horse on a beach. We've seen that before somewhere... The original Apes saw Charlton Heston's Taylor arriving in similarly equestrian fashion on a similar shoreline to make an extraordinary discovery.
Chronologically that film took place after the events of Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes and Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, kind of the stories that Dawn and Rise recently reworked. Does this first pic tease that we're now arriving at the original beginning? Our heads hurt. If you need a recap, we have just the guide for you.
Woody Harrelson, Chad Rook and Gabriel Chavarria are among the humans this time, with Steve Zahn joining the ranks of the apes, along with Andy Serkis and Terry Notary.
Details are sketchy about what the film will cover, though if you watched Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes you know that (spoiler alert) after a conflict between the human survivors of the virus and Caesar’s simian forces, a sort of truce was reached, one that was threatened by the coming of human reinforcements from outside San Francisco.
War For The Planet Of The Apes is obviously underway now, and will be out in the UK on July 21, 2017.