To capitalize on this success, Arthur P. Jacobs conceived of an hour-long live action television series to follow the films.
He first had the idea in during the production of Conquest , which he then anticipated would be the final film, but he shelved the project once Fox ordered a fifth installment.
Former Fox executive Stan Hough took over as producer for the television project, titled Planet of the Apes. CBS picked up the series for its autumn lineup.
Ron Harper and James Naughton played Alan Virdon and Peter Burke, two 20th-century American astronauts who pass through a time warp to a future where apes subjugate humans unlike the original film, the humans can speak.
Roddy McDowall returned to the franchise as Galen, a chimpanzee who joins the astronauts. The episodes portray Virdon, Burke, and Galen as they search for a way home, aid downtrodden humans and apes, and avoid the authorities.
It earned low ratings during its run, a fact the production team attributed to repetitive storytelling and too little screen time for the apes who made the franchise famous.
Given the considerable production costs, CBS cancelled the show after 14 episodes, the last airing on December 20, In , Fox reedited ten of the episodes into five television films.
Each film combined two episodes and in some markets added new introductory and concluding segments starring McDowall as an aged Galen. The films were given what scholar Eric Greene calls "the most outlandish titles of the Apes corpus": Greene finds the show's position in the Apes timeline significant: By depicting a future where apes dominate humans, it implies the Lawgiver's message of equality between man and ape has failed, giving weight to the more pessimistic interpretation of Battle ' s ending.
In , after the failure of the live-action series, NBC and 20th Century Fox agreed to adapt Planet of the Apes for an animated series.
Doug Wildey , co-creator of Jonny Quest , took on most creative control as associate producer, storyboard director, and supervising director.
As such, the show relied less on the themes and plot developments from Escape , Conquest , and Battle and instead returned to the Vietnam War and Cold War themes prominent in the first two films.
They find the world populated by three groups: Through the show, the astronauts become increasingly involved in the planet's affairs and in defending the humans against an ape invasion.
The network considered producing a second, three-episode season to complete the story, but this never materialized. Fox initiated plans to relaunch the Planet of the Apes series in the s, but the project fell into a drawn-out and fruitless development phase—" development hell "—for over ten years, one of the most protracted development periods in film history.
It began in , when Fox announced that Adam Rifkin , then a year-old independent film director, would develop a new Apes movie. At a Fox executive's invitation, Rifkin pitched a concept for Return to the Planet of the Apes , an alternative sequel to Planet that ignored the other four films.
In Rifkin's initial concept, Taylor's descendant Duke launches a Spartacus -like uprising against Roman-inspired ape oppressors led by General Izan.
Days before the project was scheduled to enter pre-production , Fox brought in new studio executives who sent it back to development.
After several years in limbo, Fox returned to the Apes concept, this time with Oliver Stone as a producer. Stone brought in Terry Hayes as screenwriter, and they developed a script titled Return of the Apes.
They discover the disease was engineered by advanced apes to ensure humanity's eventual destruction. The draft impressed Fox president Peter Chernin , but other executives were ambivalent about the action script, believing it should be lighter.
At one point, executive Dylan Sellers insisted the script include a comic scene involving apes playing baseball as his "stamp" on the film, and fired Hayes when he left it out.
This move caused Noyce to quit as well, and subsequently almost everyone involved in the project left for one reason or another.
Columbus hired Sam Hamm to write a screenplay taking elements from Boulle's novel and various unused treatments. In Hamm's script, an ape astronaut from a distant planet unleashes a devastating virus on Earth.
Scientists go to the astronaut's planet, where apes hunt humans; they locate a cure, but return to find Earth overrun by simians.
Schwarzenegger remained attached, but Fox found the script underwhelming. Columbus left the project in after his mother's death, and James Cameron stepped in to produce.
Cameron intended to go in a "very different direction" with the script, but following the critical and financial success of his film Titanic , he dropped out of the project.
Fox approached a series of directors to take over, without success. In , Fox hired William Broyles, Jr. Fox insisted on a July release date, but otherwise offered Broyles considerable creative license.
Burton found the production arduous, largely due to Fox's strict release schedule. The tight schedule meant all stages of production were rushed.
The film stars Mark Wahlberg as astronaut Leo Davidson , who accidentally travels through a wormhole to a distant planet where talking apes enslave humans.
He leads a human revolt and upends ape civilization by discovering that the apes evolved from the normal earth primates who had accompanied his mission, and arrived years before.
The film received mixed reviews; most critics believed it failed to compare to the original. Much of the negative commentary focused on the confusing plot and twist ending, though many reviewers praised the special effects.
Inspired by news articles on apes raised as humans and advances in genetics, Jaffa conceived an idea for a film about a genetically enhanced chimp raised in a human household.
He and Silver pitched the concept to Fox as a way to reboot the Apes franchise by reinventing the story of the chimpanzee Caesar , the lead character of Conquest.
Fox was impressed and bought the pitch, but development struggled for five years as the production cycled through scripts, writers, directors, and producers.
In the final script, Caesar receives enhanced cognition from a viral drug created by Will Rodman, who raises him. After being imprisoned in a primate sanctuary, Caesar uses his ingenuity to launch an uprising.
To portray ape characters realistically, the production avoided practical effects in favor of performance capture acting , partnering with New Zealand visual effects company Weta Digital.
Rise debuted on August 5, Critics reviewed it positively, especially praising the visual effects and Serkis's performance. The strength of Serkis's performance also inspired Fox to promote him for Oscar consideration; he was not nominated by Academy voters.
Producers Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark started planning the film eventually titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes just after Rise ' s release in Director Rupert Wyatt withdrew from the project due to production and scheduling issues, and was replaced by Matt Reeves.
Set ten years after Rise , the film establishes that the "simian flu" that increased the intelligence of the apes has killed most humans.
Caesar struggles to maintain peace as his ape community is drawn into violent clashes with nearby human survivors. Weta Digital again provided special effects work, which combined practical sets, digitally manipulated backgrounds, and performance capture ape characters.
Fox was confident enough in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes that the studio started planning for the next installment months before the film debuted.
After Fox and Chernin Entertainment screened Matt Reeves' cut of Dawn , he was contracted to return as director; he also wrote the script with Mark Bomback.
The film depicts the apes and humans in armed conflict, and follows Caesar and his followers as they track down the mysterious Colonel, a human paramilitary leader, and search for a new home.
Michael Avallone wrote the novelization for Beneath the Planet of the Apes in Novelizations of the live action and animated television series were also produced.
Quick novelized the Planet of the Apes ; he also wrote two prequel novels, and several other book tie-ins were published.
Planet of the Apes —based comics have been published regularly since Among the most notable is Marvel Comics ' Planet of the Apes magazine, published from to The black-and-white series featured adaptations of each of the films, new Apes stories by Doug Moench , series news, essays, interviews, and other material.
It became one of Marvel's most successful titles, attracting to fan letters with every issue, so many that the studio had to suspend its practice of writing personal responses.
Marvel also published the monthly title Adventures on the Planet of the Apes from to , comprising color reprints of the Planet and Beneath adaptations.
In , during a resurgence of interest in the franchise, Malibu Comics launched a new monthly black-and-white Planet of the Apes comic through its Adventure Comics studio.
The debut issue sold 40,, a record for black-and-white comics, leading to a successful run of 24 issues over two years.
The series follows Caesar's grandson and heir Alexander as he struggles to govern ape civilization.
The comic's success led Malibu to publish five four-issue spin-off miniseries: Ape City , Planet of the Apes: As the apes start suffering heavy losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts in order to face Colonel McCullough and the traitorous gorilla Red.
This face-off which will determine the fate of both species and Earth 's future. During the attack, the Alpha-Omega militants are met by heavy ape resistance, and several soldiers, including the gorilla Red , are captured by the apes.
Caesar arrives and orders the four human soldiers to be released, with a message to the Colonel that he did not start the war, and that he desires peace between the humans and apes.
Caesar orders that Red is to be imprisoned for his crimes, but before he can be imprisoned, Red escapes, injuring an albino gorilla named Winter.
Soon after, Caesar's son Blue Eyes and his lieutenant Rocket return from a journey to find a safe haven for the apes. They reported what they have found: Winter, still frightened from the soldiers' attack, suggested to leave immediately, but Caesar does not think they are prepared to leave so soon.
That night, a group of Alpha-Omega soldiers, led by the Colonel, infiltrates the apes' home behind a waterfall and the Colonel kills Caesar's wife, Cornelia , and Blue Eyes.
Winter cannot be found and Luca , a gorilla, believes that Winter has betrayed them out of fear. Leaving his younger son, Cornelius , in the care of Blue Eyes' mate, Lake , Caesar departs to exact revenge on the Colonel for the death of his family.
He is accompanied by Maurice , an orangutan and Caesar's adviser, Luca, and Rocket, while the other apes head for the desert. During their journey, the apes encounter a soldier living in an abandoned village and Caesar shoots him when he reaches for his rifle.
Caesar, Maurice, Luca, and Rocket search the dead soldier's home. Maurice discovers the soldier's daughter who is apparently unable to speak. Maurice befriends the girl, giving her a small rag doll and insists that they take her with them.
Along the way Caesar's party encounters Winter in an Alpha-Omega camp on the beach where he has volunteered to become a "Donkey" for the soldiers in return for sparing his life.
He tells Caesar's group that the Colonel has departed for a location referred to as the "border.
Hoping Taylor is still alive, he rides with her to Ape City, where he is shocked to discover the simian civilization. He observes the gorilla General Ursus leading a rally for the apes to conquer the Forbidden Zone and use it as a potential food source, against the objections of the orangutan Dr.
Brent is wounded by a gorilla soldier and taken by Nova to the home of the chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira , who treat his wound and tell him of their time with Taylor.
The humans hide when Dr. Zaius arrives and announces that he will accompany Ursus on the invasion of the Forbidden Zone. Attempting to flee the city, Brent and Nova are captured by gorillas.
Ursus orders they be used for target practice, but Zira helps them escape. They hide in a cave which Brent soon discovers is the ruins of the Queensboro Plaza station of the New York City Subway , realizing he traveled through time to Earth's post-apocalyptic future.
After following a humming sound deeper into the underground tunnels, Brent begins to hear voices telling him to kill Nova.
Entering the remains of St. Patrick's Cathedral , he finds a population of telepathic humans who worship an ancient nuclear bomb.
Brent and Nova are captured and telepathically interrogated by the telepaths' leadership under Mendez. They explain themselves to be the descendants of humans who survived nuclear holocaust and mutated over generations.
While claiming to be a peaceful society despite using mind-control and illusion on their enemies, the mutants force Brent into revealing the apes' march on the Forbidden Zone; but their attempts to repel the invaders with illusions of fire and other horrors ultimately fail when Zaius sees through it.
With the apes closing in, the telepaths plan to detonate their "Divine Bomb" as a last resort, holding a pseudo-religious ritual during which they remove their human-skinned masks to reveal their malformed skinless appearance from generations of radiation exposure.
Brent is separated from Nova and taken to a cell where he finds Taylor. The mutant Ongaro, explaining that they cannot let them leave the city alive, uses his telepathic powers to force Brent and Taylor to kill each other.
Nova escapes her guard and runs to the cell, screaming her first word: Brent describes the bomb the mutants worship to have Greek letters Alpha and Omega on its casing, Taylor recognizing it as a "doomsday bomb" capable of destroying the entire planet.
The apes invade the subterranean city, making their way to the cathedral; many of the mutants are either captured, killed, or found to have committed suicide.
The humans attempt to stop Ursus from accidentally setting off the weapon, but Taylor is shot as his pleas to Zaius fall on deaf ears. When Brent is gunned down after killing Ursus, the mortally wounded Taylor collapses while bringing his hand down on the activation switch and triggering the bomb.
The scene whites out, and voiceover narration states: Soon after Planet of the Apes became a hit, a sequel started being considered by 20th Century Fox.
Screenwriter Rod Serling was consulted, but his ideas did not interest the studio. Then the producers turned to the author of the original novel , Pierre Boulle , who wrote a draft for a sequel called Planet of the Men , where protagonist George Taylor would lead an uprising of the enslaved men to take back control from the apes as the gorilla general Ursus wants to fight humans.
Boulle's script was rejected as it was felt that it lacked the "visual shock and the surprise" of the original. Associate producer Mort Abrahams then wrote story elements, and British writer Paul Dehn was hired to develop them into a script, tentatively called Planet of the Apes Revisited.
Dehn implemented his trauma of the atomic bombings and the fear of nuclear warfare on the story.
Juli in den US-amerikanischen und am 3. Mitte Mai wurde ein letzter Trailer zum Film veröffentlicht. Durch die Nutzung dieser Website erklären Sie sich mit den Nutzungsbedingungen und der Datenschutzrichtlinie einverstanden. Ihr Weg führt durch das Waldgebiet, das die Affen für sich beansprucht haben. Die Hauptdreharbeiten begannen am 5. August in den deutschen Kinos veröffentlicht werden. Der Colonel findet diese und nimmt sie an sich. Wer ist dieses Kind in "Planet der Affen - Survival"? Aber zurück zu Caesar. Auch hier werden die Verbesserungen im Vergleich zu Planet der Affen: Zira, die mit dem Archäologen Dr.
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