‘Planet of the Apes’ Characters Appear on Horseback in Venice Beach [Video]

For most moviegoers, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is still a few weeks away from opening in theaters. For Californians, the apes have already invaded the beach.

On April 22, a TikTok video went viral showing three actors dressed as apes atop horses on the beach in Venice, California. The people outfitted in ape costumes could be seen trotting their horses around on the sand while members of the public looked on in shock. The video has already been viewed more than 1.6 million times on TikTok.

The new Planet of the Apes movie marks the franchise’s first release since 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes. The sequel picks up after a significant amount of time passed following the 2010s trilogy, which depicted the rise of an intelligent species of apes that rival the human species on Earth. Now the dominant species on the planet, trailers for the filmshow that apes hunt humans, who have been reduced to a …