Gary Oldman shares 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' spoilers [VIDEO]

There is a lot of mystery surrounding Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the Matt Reeves-directed sequel to 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This is not a surprising case considering the movie is supposed to be very exciting and ... well, surprising. Unfortunately for the film, one of the stars, Gary Oldman, managed to spill the beans of some spoilers in a new interview with MTV! (SPOILERS to follow)

Music Television reports:

According to what the actor told us, Oldman plays "the designated leader" of a community of humans "who were lucky enough to survive the flu, the disease and ensuing social uprising," following the apocalyptic credits sequence of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Oldman's character was a police officer before the fall of civilization, and has subsequently been elected to lead over his group of survivors.

Oldman went on to describe on plot point of the humans finding a power station but "discover that there's a whole community of apes living there. We believed that they were all completely fire-bottomed and wiped out."

"There's only one answer for him: Wipe them out," Oldman said of his character.

Spoilers aside, Oldman also spoke highly of director Reeves.

"He wanted to make it more of a human story," said Oldman. "He wanted to explore what had happened, and keep it more focused on the human side of it, before the story becomes the 'Planet of the Apes' as we know it from the original."

Watch this interview right here: