(Additional dialogue was added to the screenplay by novelist James Hilton and Robert Benchley and over a dozen other uncredited scriptwriters.InDawn, the setting was the year 2026, about 10 years into the future.A group of survivors (father and ex-architect Malcolm (Jason Clarke), Malcolm""s wife and CDC nurse Ellie (Keri Russell), and human colony leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman)), living in the ruins of San Francisco, were attempting to restore electrical power to the city by gaining access to a hydroelectric dam in the apes"" territory.He has failed dismally on his latest personal assignment - to break up the romance between Hunsecker""s younger sister and an up-and-coming jazz musician." Looking down upon his sarcophagus was the statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death.