Taylor is accompanied by fellow astronauts Landon, Stewart and Dodge as they prepare for a long voyage back to Earth. It instead opens with a small monologue from the star, Charlton Heston, who portrays an astronaut named Taylor. Planet Of The Apes actually doesn’t open with quite the bang it ends with (but I will get to that later). So you can understand the horror brought to fans of the original by the announcement the film was being remade in 2001. It is safe to say that these films ruled the 1970s and changed the face of science fiction forever. ‘ Apes mania’ had truly taken over, and after the films the public was treated to a further two Apes television series (both a live action, and an animated one). This was quickly followed by Escape From, Conquest Of and Battle For The Planet Of The Apes. The film captured the imaginations of people worldwide and only two years later we received the first of four sequels, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. It wasn’t long before the book was adapted for a screenplay, and only five years later (in 1968) Planet Of The Apes hit our screens and proved itself as an instant cult classic. It followed the story of a man crashing a spaceship on a planet where humans are treated like animals, and aes are the dominant species. In 1963 a writer named Pierre Boulle published a book named La Planète des singes, which translates from French as Monkey Planet.
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