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Planet of the Apes is a franchise starting in 1968 with its latest instalment set to release in 2024. The series spanning movies, TV shows, comics, novels and video games, and more follows a dystopian world in which there is war between apes and humans, vying for control over one another.
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Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control.
- Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975–1976)
- La Planète des singes (1963)
- Pierre Boulle
- Planet of the Apes (1974)
- Overview
- See also
- External links
- References
Planet of the Apes is the name commonly used to describe a science fiction franchise, which gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1963 French novelist Pierre Boulle published a science fiction novel entitled La Planète des Singes. Boulle's novel revealed a dystopic future environment governed by evolved talking apes. Humans were considered second class citizens.
In 1968, 20th Century Fox and producer Arthur P. Jacobs adapted Boulle's story for the big screen. Screenwriters Michael Wilson and Rod Serling altered several key elements of the original story and the first Planet of the Apes movie was released to American audiences on April 3rd. Like the novel, the film had classes for the apes; chimpanzees were peaceful citizens and intellectuals, orangutans were aristocratic politicians and scientists, and gorillas were violent authority figures and laborers. The film proved wildly successful and spawned four sequels: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
In 1974, CBS began airing a short-lived live-action Planet of the Apes TV series. Chronologically set between Battle for the Planet of the Apes and the depressing apocalypse of the first two films, the series featured Alan Virdon and Peter Burke as the time-lost astronauts trapped in the future. Veteran ape actor Roddy McDowall returned to the franchise, this time playing the meek chimpanzee Galen. The series lasted only one season, spanning a total of thirteen episodes.
In 1975, NBC produced the first Planet of the Apes animated series, entitled Return to the Planet of the Apes. The series maintained the same central plot elements as its predecessors, including a group of protagonist human characters who find themselves lost in time. The animated series revised the movie characters of Zira, Cornelius and Zaius, and also featured the mutated humans first shown in 1970's Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Return to the Planet of the Apes lasted only thirteen episodes and was eventually cancelled.
Before Planet of the Apes, science-fiction films had a poor reputation established by a string of risible B-movies such as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. It was a genre aimed at rowdy, popcorn-throwing, cat-calling audiences rather than those who wanted to be emotionally wrung, intellectually challenged or scared witless. The success of Planet of the Apes, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, however, prompted studios to consider other big-budget sci-fi films. It is no accident that it was 20th Century Fox, the studio that made Planet of the Apes, which backed Star Wars and Alien. Planet of the Apes also laid the foundations of modern film merchandising. It's blitz of toys and other items only really took off at the end of the movie series, but it whetted the appetite for George Lucas’ lightsabers a few years later. It is no exaggeration to suggest that without Planet of the Apes, the Star Wars phenomenon and cinema's sci-fi boom might never have happened.[1]
In 2001, movie director Tim Burton released a re-imagined version of the Planet of the Apes mythos. The film starred Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, and Helena Bonham Carter, and centered on an astronaut who crash lands on a primitive planet where evolved genetically altered apes dominate a race of inferior humans. This film retold many events of the original film and ended with a reference to the novel. Burton's film differed greatly from previous incarnations of the franchise and was met with mixed reviews.
•Planet of the Apes
•Beneath the Planet of the Apes
•Escape from the Planet of the Apes
•Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
•Battle for the Planet of the Apes
•Planet of the Apes (TV series)
•Film Apes (a history of ape monster movies) - 'Movie Monsters' #1 (1974) at Hunter's Apes Archive
1.↑ The Legend of the Planet of the Apes, by Brian Pendreigh - reprinted in 'Night & Day' (2001)
The purpose of this Wiki site is to provide a definitive database on all material relating to the Planet of the Apes franchise, including: The original five-movie pentalogy, the Tim Burton remake, the reboot films, comics, novels, merchandise and more!
The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Estella Warren, and Paul Giamatti. It tells the story of astronaut Leo Davidson (Wahlberg) crash-landing on a planet inhabited by intelligent apes.
Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control.
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