Daarom lijkt het niet gek dat er al mogelijk een vervolg op komst is. Regisseur Rupert Wyatt vertelde tijdens een interview over hoe hij een vervolg graag ziet. De film zou een soort Full Metal Jacket met apen moeten worden. Zo zou de film volgens hem kunnen laten zien hoe apensoldaten steden overnemen en met mensen vechten.
The ideas Ive had are all sorts of things, ranging from Full Metal Jacket with apes you could start this story again eight years from where we left off, the next generation of apes, those that have come from our protagonists, perhaps going in to a conflict with humans and showing real fear, in the same way as going into war for young soldiers in this day and age, telling their story. Or how apes are taking over cities, and being moved into human environments and having to interact with them and deal with things that are part of our culture and understand and evolve through them. Spies that are in the employ of the apes, working against humans and humans maybe existing underground, because thats a way they can avoid the virus, coming up above ground wearing gas masks, and maybe thats what dehumanises them.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes draait vanaf 18 augustus in de Nederlandse bioscopen.