Well folks the release of Rupert Wyatt’s RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES has come and gone and what a surprise it turned out to be! Who would’ve thought this flick would make the money it has? Don’t get me wrong.. I’m actually happy to see the flick do well… So well in fact that we might even get a couple more because of it!
I know just the other day Eric told you all how director Rupert Wyatt was talking about his ideas for a sequel to RISE but now today it seems the writers for the film had bigger aspirations..
You see Entertainment Weekly had a chance to sit down with scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver and it seems the writers had a trilogy in mind from the get-go. Check it:
Amanda Silver: I’m touching wood, because I’m superstitious! We definitely have ideas for where the sequel — plural, where the sequels — would take us. And those were kind of built into –
Rick Jaffa: — the construction of the narrative already. There hasn’t been an official discussion yet about a sequel, because I think everyone still doesn’t want to jinx where we are. But we definitely have ideas.
Amanda Silver: When we started this, we knew that this movie would stand on its own, and we designed it that way. But if it didn’t stand on its own, we pictured a trilogy that would start with this movie.
Now mind you this doesn’t mean there’s a trilogy in the works, though with the success of RISE this past weekend I wouldn’t doubt if that shite is indeed fast tracked. The scribes get a bit more into detail regarding the potential sequels, so you’ll want to pop on over to Entertainment Weekly to read up on that.
You can bet we’ll keep you updated on any future APES projects as soon as they come across our airwaves.
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES star Freida Pinto
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