
In 2001, Planet of the Apes was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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The original series was followed by Tim Burton's remake Planet of the Apes in 2001 and the reboot series began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes in 2011. In particular, Roddy McDowall had a long-running relationship with the Apes series, appearing in four of the original five films (absent, from the second film of the series, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which he was replaced by David Watson in the role of Cornelius), and also in the television series. The film was groundbreaking for its prosthetic makeup techniques by artist John Chambers and was well received by critics and audiences, launching a film franchise, including four sequels, as well as a short-lived television show, animated series, comic books, and various merchandising. The film was released in the United States on February 8, 1968, and was a commercial success, earning a lifetime domestic gross of $32.6 million. The film's final "closed" cost was $5.8 million. Filming took place between May 21 and August 10, 1967, in California, Utah and Arizona, with desert sequences shot in and around Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Schaffner's changes included an ape society less advanced-and therefore less expensive to depict-than that of the original novel.

Jacobs, upon the recommendation of Charlton Heston, chose Franklin J. Lee Thompson and Blake Edwards were approached, but the film's producer Arthur P. The outline Planet of the Apes script, originally written by Serling, underwent many rewrites before filming eventually began. The apes have assumed the role of the dominant species and humans are mute creatures wearing animal skins. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. In the film, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Written by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, it stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison. Schaffner and loosely based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle. However Koba wants the war against mankind and he provokes a situation of intolerance and consequent confrontation.Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J.


Meanwhile the leader of the humans Dreyfus decides to arm the survivors since he does not believe in the apes. Caesar accepts his argument and let him work with his family and a few technicians in the dam. However Malcolm returns alone to the woods to meet Caesar to explain that they need to repair the hydroelectric dam to recover power in the city to save the survivors. Then he goes with a group of apes to the city to tell them to stay there since they do not want war against the human, despite the hatred of his second in command Koba against humans. However, Caesar orders the human to return to the derelict San Francisco City. When Blue Eyes and his friend Ash stumble upon a group of humans under the command of Malcolm, there is a friction between them. In San Francisco, Caesar has become the leader of evolved apes and has a son, Blue Eyes. Ten years after the worldwide pandemic of the deadly virus ALZ-113, human civilization is completely destroyed.
