UK director Rupert Wyatt was relatively unknown outside of his native country, until the recent release of the blockbuster prequel, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, made him among the brightest director to look for. You can check out my review here. On the plus side, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES was currently doing good in the box-office, raking in a healthy $54 million during its first three days in U.S. theaters.
Now Rupert Wyatt already started talking about the sequel to the RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and here are some of his proposed ideas he might go for it:
“There’s so much we could do… The ideas I’ve 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 that’s a way they can avoid the virus, coming up above ground wearing gas masks, and maybe that’s what dehumanises them.”
Wow, FULL METAL JACKET with apes? Now that's truly inspiring. I honestly can't wait to see it materialized.