Having garnered a selection of approving reviews from the critics (you can check ours out here), Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes finally repaid Fox’s faith in the franchise by storming to the top of the US box office on its opening weekend.

Unsurprisingly, there has already been talk of a sequel and Rupert Wyatt is already starting to formulate ideas as to where the series could go next. ““You could start this story again eight years from where we left off,” said Wyatt to Bleeding Cool. “[We could have] 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 [is] for young soldiers in this day and age.”

“Or how apes are taking over cities,” he continued, “and being moved into human environments and having to interact with them. Having to deal with things that are part of our culture and understand and evolve through them.”

Seeing as he did such a bang-up job first time around, we wouldn’t be remotely surprised to see Wyatt given a second bite of the cherry. Having spent the best part of a decade breathing new life into the series’ twitching corpse, it would be very surprising if Fox weren’t planning sequels, and Wyatt has surely done enough here to warrant the chance to continue his story.

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