History Film / RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes

* EvilBrit: Dodge and John Landon. At the very least, they are portrayed by British actors with the former English and the latter Scottish respectively.

* DolledUpInstallment: A weird one. Rick Jaffa wrote the first treatment as an original story inspired by reports of people raising primates as children in their homes and being attacked by them. It wasn't until he was finishing it that he realized that, given enough time, the situation created by the ending could very well lead to the world seen in the 1968 ''Planet of the Apes''. So Jaffa contacted FOX, presented the story as a reboot for ''Planet of the Apes'', and this is the result.

''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' is a 2011 film directed by Rupert Wyatt that serves as a [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] of the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' franchise. The film is a loose remake of ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and tells the origin of a new ''Planet of the Apes'' universe with a new take on the backstory to the original films, with notable and prominent use of SerkisFolk (with Creator/AndySerkis [[TropeNamer himself]] playing Caesar) to portray the apes. Creator/JamesFranco, Creator/FreidaPinto, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/BrianCox, Creator/TomFelton and Creator/DavidOyelowo also star.

** John Lithgow becomes friends with a primate. [[Film/HarryAndTheHendersons Again.]]

A third sequel ''Film/KingdomOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' will be released in 2024 and is directed by Wes Ball.

Two sequels, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', were released in 2014 and 2017 respectively. Both were directed by Creator/Mattresses.

Two sequels, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', were released in 2014 and 2017 respectively. Both were directed by Creator/MattReeves.

* LabPet: Ceasar, the son of a lab chimp, is taken home and made a pet.

** All of the apes, i.e. Maurice, had names that were based on names of apes of the [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes original film series]] or crew members that worked on the original film series.

** Also, whilst he gets over it quickly enough, [[spoiler:Caesar still looks incredibly shocked at Dodge's death, as it was unintentional on his part]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The final scene of the film ([[spoiler:Caesar, Koba and Will]]) practically serves as a glimpse and taste of the sequel's main plot.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:For Will when he sees the initial cure work on his father. However, anti-bodies soon develop to fight the cure and the Alzheimer's comes back with a vengeance.]] Serves as a bit of ShownTheirWork, since this is generally the final outcome of most Alzheimer's treatments in real life (the ones that work at all, anyway).

* ShownTheirWork: ''Possibly''. A leading theory for the cause of the rapid spread of AIDS in North America is "a promiscuous flight attendant".[[note]]This would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas Gaëtan Dugas]], a gay flight attendant who was one of the first cases, but not the first in America, and was vilified by a mostly false and embellished book in 1987 due to the writer mistaking "Patient O" as in O for Outside California, for "Patient 0" as in Patient Zero.[[/note]]With even more air travel and an easier route of transmission, the spread isn't that hard to believe.

* RockBeatsLaser: Against all expectations, the rogue apes easily defeat a police force with automatic rifles and mounted units on the Golden Gate bridge, thanks to Caesar's excellent leadership and strategic acumen. San Fran's Finest are quickly enveloped and attacked on all sides (including above and below) and soon fall back in a panicked rout. [[ChekhovsSkill All those chess games taught him well.]]

* ThePlague

** The police helicopter, after seeing the apes climb to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge and hide in the fog, don't bother to inform the armed officers waiting at the north end of the bridge that they might be attacked from above.