鲁伯特·怀亚特执导的这部《人猿星球的崛起》是根据皮埃尔·布尔1963年发表的小说《人猿星球 》 — —讲述一个居住着高智商类人猿的世界 — — 改编的第七部电影，并将其宣传为“电影史上第一部由有知觉的动物担任主角，并通过其角度来讲述的实景拍摄电影。
Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the seventh film in a series based on Pierre Boule’s 1963 novel, Planet of the Apes, about a world populated by highly intelligent simians. Publicity for the new film claims that it is “the first live-action film in the history of movies to star, and be told from the point of view of, a sentient animal.”