Not really the original took place on the east coast
And it takes place like 20000 years in the future
It's probably done for another 10 years. It only made 9 mil more ww than the first movie and $220 mil less than Dawn.
I loved it though still top 3 for me this year
I'm still a bit
at how this movie didn't do as well considering it was liked and well received and plus it was coming off on Dawn which was also a hit with audiences and at the box office. I guess it was either too dark or just came out at a bad time (this summer was one of the worst summers in BO history). I'm also sad that we won't find out about the astronauts that disappeared - which I suppose was just put in Rise for fans of the original series. It's like "C'mon, Fox, don't tease me like that."
Would've liked for them to return with apes in a highly advanced futuristic society (which is what the OG Apes movie was supposed to be but couldn't due to budget restraints).
IMDB has info on a lot of this
In October 2016, it was announced that a fourth Planet of the Apes film was already being planned.
According to director Matt Reeves, the name of the group of rebelling humans are the Alpha and Omega, a reference to the bomb the mutants worshiped in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). The logo on their helments and flag matches the original logo on the bomb.
The little girl named Nova is named after the character played by Linda Harrison in the first and second films in the original franchise.
Speaking with MTV, Andy Serkis, was asked about the setting for the upcoming third film and revealed that the third film may not be the conclusion to the franchise. He stated, "It's very, very early in where we choose to drop anchor in the next film. It could be five years after the event, it could be the night after the events of where we left 'Dawn,' so it's very difficult to know where the story is going right at this moment because it's being written as we speak. I know that part of the desire for Matt Reeves to do this next movie is about continuing the enjoyment of seeing these apes evolve. So I don't think we're going to see a situation where we're jumping... It might be three films; it could be four. It could be five. Who knows? But the journey will continue. It might not necessarily be summarized or completely fulfilled in this next one. The point being, eventually we know that we're going to end up back at 'The Planet of the Apes,' but whether it's this film or not, I don't know."
The character Nova is an allusion to Nova in the original Planet of the Apes (1968). Both incarnations of Nova are mute, and are given the name Nova by their protectors.
Caesar's son shares his name with the Roddy McDowall character, Cornelius, in the original film. Ironically, in the original film series Caesar is the son of Cornelius, eventually naming his own son Cornelius after his father.
The mutation of the simian flu virus rendering the surviving humans mute and mindless is a foreshadowing of the events in the original Planet of the Apes (1968) in which the surviving human population is mute and primitive.
The ending of the film contains references to the canon of the original film series. Before Caesar dies, Maurice (an orangutan) promises that he will tell Caesar's story to his surviving son. In the original series, the legacy of Caesar after his death is preserved by an orangutan known as "The Lawgiver", played by John Huston in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), and afterward the orangutans become the learned politicians and religious leaders of ape society, revering the memory of The Lawgiver in statues after Caesar has been forgotten. The plot of Planet of the Apes (1968) hinges on the orangutans having taught apes a false history of the world and erasing knowledge that humankind once was the dominant species of Earth.
