Rise of the Planet of the Apes Trivia

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The name of Tom Felton's character Dodge Landon is a reference to the characters Dodge (Jeff Burton) and Landon (Robert Gunner), Colonel Taylor's (Charlton Heston) fellow astronauts in Planet of the Apes. (imdb.com)

The orangutan character befriended by Caeser in prison is named Maurice after actor Maurice Evans, who played the orangutan Doctor Zaius in the original _Planet Of the Apes (1968)_.
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This is the second film in which Andy Serkis plays an ape, having previously portrayed 2005's version of King Kong. He was also the motion capture actor for Gollum in Lord of the Rings, where he bites off Frodo's finger. His ape character Caesar bites the neighbor's finger in this role, too. (imdb.com)

Caesar uses a bundle of sticks to explain to Maurice how an ape alone is weak but apes together are strong. The bundle of sticks, or fasces, was a symbol of authority in ancient Rome, the origin of Caesar's name. Caesar's charisma is also reminiscent of Benito Mussolini, who adopted the fasces as the symbol of his Italian Fascist party. The fasces or bundle of sticks concept is also used in several symbols in the architecture of the American White House and Captiol and is the subject of the Aesop fable "The Bundle of Sticks" about a father demonstrating to his sons how they should work together. (imdb.com)

The head of the research department Steven Jacobs (David Oyelowo) is named after Arthur P. Jacobs, producer of the original "Apes" franchise. His production company, APJAC, was often referredto as "ApeJAC". (imdb.com)

This is the first "Planet of the Apes" film in which neither Charlton Heston nor Roddy McDowall, the stars of the original Planet of the Apes, are involved in the actual film making. Heston died on April 5, 2008 at the age of 84 whereas McDowall died on October 3, 1998 at the age of 70. (imdb.com)

The name given to Caesar's mother is "Bright Eyes" due to the coloration in her eyes caused by the ALZ-112 virus. "Bright Eyes" is the name given to Taylor (Charlton Heston) by Dr. Zira (Kim Hunter) in the original Planet of the Apes. (imdb.com)

Shipped to theaters under the code name "Salad". (imdb.com)

Jamie Harris plays Rodney, the sympathetic keeper in the ape sanctuary. This is a nod to legendary ape actor 'Roddy McDowell'. (imdb.com)

A news headline reports that the "Icarus" is the first craft headed to Mars. This is one of the proposed names of Taylor's _Charlton Heston_ craft in the original Planet of the Apes. It also refers to the Greek myth which cautions against overreaching ambition. (imdb.com)

Charlton Heston makes two appearances - he is featured on the TV screen in the role of Michelangelo from The Agony and the Ecstasy in the ape sanctuary bunk house, and in a similar scene, with Tom Felton's character watching Heston play the role of Moses in The Ten Commandments. (imdb.com)

In one scene, Caesar is shown handling a 3D puzzle of the Statue of Liberty, in reference to the the ending of the original Planet of the Apes. (imdb.com)

The orangutan's name is Maurice, and the gorilla's name is Buck - nods to actors from the original Planet of the Apes: Maurice Evans, who portrayed Dr. Zaius, an orangutan and Buck Kartalian, who played the gorilla zoo keeper, Julius. (imdb.com)

Kathryn Bigelow, Robert Rodriguez, Tomas Alfredson, Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes, Pierre Morel, James McTeigue, Dennis Iliadis and Scott Charles Stewart all were considered by the studio, or passed on the project before director Rupert Wyatt signed on. (imdb.com)

This is 'Charlton Heston''s 5th 'appearence' in the Planet of the Apes franchise. 1) He starred in the original; 2) co-starred in Beneath the Planet of the Apes; 3) was seen in archive footage (kissing Zira in a sepia yellow flashback) in Escape from the Planet of the Apes; 4) had a cameo as Zaius in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake; and 5) can be seen on the TV set in the Ape bunkhouse in the role of Michelangelo from The Agony and the Ecstasy in this movie. (imdb.com)

When Tom Felton's character Dodge Landon is showing his friends around the primate shelter, he introduces one of the female apes as "Cornilla" - a mash-up of, and reference to, the two main ape characters from the previous movies, "Cornelius" and "Zira". (imdb.com)

The "in-flight footage" from the Icarus mission is actually a clip of on-board film from the 1968 flight of Apollo 8. (imdb.com)

There is a reference regarding the first space mission to Mars in the film saying that the spacecraft/astronauts have disappeared. A subtle way of the filmmakers to indicate that they gone into a time warp and will end up on the future "Planet of the Apes". (imdb.com)

In one scene under the vault, Ceasar is taking the pose of The Thinker, by french sculptor August Rodin. (imdb.com)

The lab worker who cares for the chimps is named Franklin, a nod to the director of the original Planet of the Apes film, Franklin J. Schaffner. (imdb.com)

This movie is the first installment to feature another ape species besides chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans; Koba, the scarred lab ape, is a bonobo. (imdb.com)

Tom Felton's character Dodge Landon speaks two of Charlton Heston's most famous lines from the original Planet of the Apes - "It's a madhouse! A madhouse!" and "Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!" (imdb.com)

The first word spoken by an ape is "no". This was also the same first word as spoken by Aldo (as told to us by Cornelius in Escape from the Planet of the Apes) in the original timeline, and by Lisa in the "altered" timeline shown in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. (imdb.com)