Planet of the Apes (1968 film)#Accolades

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Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation after a near-light-speed space voyage. Their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet; Taylor's estimate places them in Orion's Bellatrix System, 300 light-years from their home Solar System. Before they abandon their sinking vessel, Taylor, the mission commander, reads the ship's chronometer as November 25, 3978 – 2,006 years after their departure in 1972. The three astronauts have been in hibernation pods and have aged slightly less than one year. However, a fourth astronaut, Stewart, is found to be dead, having aged rapidly after her hibernation pod was compromised.

The men travel through desolate wasteland, coming across eerie scarecrow-like figures and a freshwater lake with lush vegetation. While the men are swimming, their clothes are stolen and shredded by primitive, mute humans. Soon after, armed gorillas raid a cornfield where the humans are gathering food. Taylor is shot in the throat as he and the others are captured. Dodge is killed, and Landon is captured in the chaos. Taylor is taken to Ape City. Two chimpanzees, animal psychologist Zira and surgeon Galen, save Taylor's life, though his throat injury renders him temporarily mute.

Taylor is placed with a captive woman, whom he later names Nova. He observes an advanced society of talking apes with a strict caste system: gorillas are the military force and laborers; orangutans oversee government and religion; and intellectual chimpanzees are mostly scientists and doctors. The ape society is a theocracy, while the apes consider the primitive humans as vermin to be hunted and either killed outright, enslaved, or used in scientific experiments. Taylor convinces Zira and her fiancé, Cornelius, that he is as intelligent as they are by communicating through written messages and by making a paper airplane. Dr. Zaius, their orangutan superior, arranges for Taylor to be castrated against Zira's protests. Taylor escapes and finds Dodge's stuffed corpse on display in a museum. He is soon recaptured and regains his voice, which alarms the apes.

A hearing is convened to determine Taylor's origins. Taylor mentions his two comrades, learning that Landon was lobotomized and rendered catatonic. Believing Taylor either is from an unknown human tribe beyond their borders or was the subject of a mad scientist who gave him the power of speech, Zaius privately threatens to castrate and lobotomize Taylor for refusing to reveal his origins. With help from Zira's nephew Lucius, Zira and Cornelius free Taylor and Nova and take them to the Forbidden Zone, a taboo region outside Ape City where Taylor's ship crashed. Ape law has ruled the area off-limits for centuries. Cornelius and Zira are intent on gathering proof of an earlier non-simian civilization, which Cornelius had discovered a year earlier, to clear heresy; Taylor focuses on proving he comes from a different planet.

When the group arrives at the cave, Cornelius is intercepted by Zaius and his soldiers. Taylor holds them off by threatening to shoot Zaius, who agrees to enter the cave to disprove their theories. Inside, Cornelius displays remnants of a technologically advanced human society pre-dating simian history. Taylor identifies artifacts such as dentures, eyeglasses, a heart valve, and, to the apes' astonishment, a talking human doll. Zaius admits he has always known about the ancient human civilization. Taylor wants to search for answers. Zaius warns Taylor against finding an answer that he will not like, adding that the now-desolate Forbidden Zone was once a lush paradise. After Taylor and Nova are allowed to leave, Zaius seals off the cave to destroy the evidence, while charging Zira, Cornelius, and Lucius with heresy.

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Taylor and Nova follow the shoreline on horseback. Eventually, they discover the remnants of the Statue of Liberty, revealing that this supposedly alien planet is Earth, long after a nuclear war. Understanding Zaius' earlier warning while Nova looks on in shock, Taylor falls to his knees in despair, cursing humanity for destroying the world.

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• Charlton Heston as George Taylor

• Roddy McDowall as Dr. Cornelius
• Kim Hunter as Dr. Zira
• Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius
• James Whitmore as President of the Assembly
• James Daly as Dr. Honorius

• Linda Harrison as Nova

• Jeff Burton as Dodge
• Robert Gunner as Landon
• Lou Wagner as Lucius
• Woodrow Parfrey as Dr. Maximus
• Buck Kartalian as Julius
• Norman Burton as Hunt Leader
• Wright King as Dr. Galen
• Paul Lambert as Minister
• Dianne Stanley as Stewart (4th astronaut; uncredited)

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Producer Arthur P. Jacobs bought the rights for the Pierre Boulle novel before its publication in 1963. Jacobs pitched the production to many studios, and in late 1964, the project was announced as a Warner Bros. production, with Blake Edwards attached to direct.Motion Picture Exhibitor, December 30, 1964, page 60 After Jacobs made a successful debut as a producer doing What a Way to Go! (1964) for 20th Century-Fox and begun pre-production of another film for the studio, Doctor Dolittle, he managed to convince Fox vice-president Richard D. Zanuck to greenlight Planet of the Apes.{{cite video |title=Behind the Planet of the Apes |year=1998 |author=American Movie Classics |author-link=American Movie Classics |location=Planet of the Apes Blu-Ray |publisher=20th Century Fox Home Entertainment}}

One script that came close to being made was written by The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, though it was finally rejected for a number of reasons. A prime concern was cost, as the technologically advanced ape society portrayed by Serling's script would have involved expensive sets, props, and special effects. The previously blacklisted screenwriter Michael Wilson was brought in to rewrite Serling's script and, as suggested by director Franklin J. Schaffner, the ape society was made more primitive as a way of reducing costs. Serling's stylized twist ending was retained, and became one of the most famous movie endings of all time. The exact location and state of decay of the Statue of Liberty changed over several storyboards. One version depicted the statue buried up to its nose in the middle of a jungle while another depicted the statue in pieces.

To convince Fox that a Planet of the Apes film could be made, the producers shot a brief test scene from a Rod Serling draft of the script, using early versions of the ape makeup, on March 8, 1966. Charlton Heston appeared as an early version of Taylor (named Thomas, as he was in the Serling-penned drafts), Edward G. Robinson appeared as Zaius, while two then-unknown Fox contract actors, James Brolin and Linda Harrison, played Cornelius and Zira. Harrison, who was at the time the girlfriend of studio chief Richard D. Zanuck, went on to be cast as Nova. Jacobs had at first considered Ursula Andress, then screen tested Angelique Pettyjohn, and even considered doing an international talent search for the role before Harrison's casting.{{cite book|page=8|title=Planet Of The Apes: An Unofficial Companion|author=Hofstede, David|publisher=ECW Press|year= 2001|isbn= 1550224468}}{{cite news |last=Pulver |first=Andrew |title=Monkey business |date=June 24, 2005 |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/25/adaptationoftheweek.books |access-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518092144/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/25/adaptationoftheweek.books |url-status=live }} Robinson wound up not joining the cast due to his declining health.

Michael Wilson's rewrite kept the basic structure of Serling's screenplay but rewrote all the dialogue and set the script in a more primitive society. According to associate producer Mort Abrahams an additional uncredited writer (his only recollection was that the writer's last name was Kelly) polished the script, rewrote some of the dialogue and included some of the more heavy-handed tongue-in-cheek dialogue ("I never met an ape I didn't like") which wasn't in either Serling or Wilson's drafts. According to Abrahams, some scenes, such as the one where the judges imitate the "see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil" monkeys, were improvised on the set by director Franklin J. Schaffner and kept in the final film because of the audience reaction during test screenings prior to release.{{cite book |last1=Russo |first1=Joe |last2=Landsman |first2=Larry |last3=Gross |first3=Edward |title=Planet of the Apes Revisited: The Behind-The Scenes Story of the Classic Science Fiction Saga |date=2001 |publisher=Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin |location=New York |isbn=0312252390 |edition=1st |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312252397 |page=71}} During filming John Chambers, who designed prosthetic make-up in the film,{{cite news |title=Obituary: John Chambers: Make-up master responsible for Hollywood's finest space-age creatures |author=Brian Pendreigh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/sep/07/guardianobituaries.filmnews |newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 7, 2001 |access-date=February 27, 2013 |archive-date=February 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228155815/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/sep/07/guardianobituaries.filmnews |url-status=live }} held training sessions at 20th Century-Fox studios, where he mentored other make-up artists of the film.{{cite book |title=Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers |author=Tom Weaver |publisher=McFarland |year=2010 |isbn=978-0786458318 |page=314 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50AbUfJS6OkC&q=John+Chambers+makeup+artist&pg=PA314 |access-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-date=June 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605020319/https://books.google.com/books?id=50AbUfJS6OkC&q=John+Chambers+makeup+artist&pg=PA314 |url-status=live }}

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Filming began on May 21, 1967, and wrapped on August 10. Most of the early scenes of a desert-like terrain were shot in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, Lake Powell,{{rp|61}} Glen Canyon{{rp|61}} and other locations near Page, Arizona{{rp|59}} Most scenes of the ape village, interiors and exteriors, were filmed on the Fox Ranch{{rp|68}} in Malibu Creek State Park, northwest of Los Angeles, essentially the backlot of 20th Century-Fox. The concluding beach scenes were filmed on a stretch of California seacoast between Malibu and Oxnard with cliffs that towered {{convert|130|ft|m}} above the shore. Reaching the beach on foot was virtually impossible, so cast, crew, film equipment, and even horses had to be lowered in by helicopter.{{rp|79}}

The remains of the Statue of Liberty were shot in a secluded cove on the far eastern end of Westward Beach, between Zuma Beach and Point Dume in Malibu.{{cite web |url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/p/planet_apes.html |title=Film locations for Planet of the Apes (1968) |publisher=Movie-locations.com |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706115121/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/p/planet_apes.html |archive-date=July 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }} As noted in the documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes, the special effect shot of the half-buried statue was achieved by seamlessly blending a matte painting with existing cliffs. The shot looking down at Taylor was done from a {{convert|70|ft|m|adj=on}} scaffold, angled over a {{frac|1|2}}-scale papier-mache model of the Statue. The actors in Planet of the Apes were so affected by their roles and wardrobe that, when not shooting, they automatically segregated themselves with the species they were portraying.{{cite web |url=http://www.theforbidden-zone.com/info/trivia.shtml |title=Apes Trivia |publisher=Theforbidden-zone.com |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211801/http://www.theforbidden-zone.com/info/trivia.shtml |url-status=live }} Lou Wagner said that the makeup was particularly heavy in the area of the mouth and made it difficult to drink anything.{{cite web | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-zaius-charlton-heston-planet-of-the-apes_n_57830bdce4b0344d514fdf61 | title=Dr. Zaius Dishes on 'Planet of the Apes' | date=July 11, 2016 }}

At one point, it was decided that Nova was pregnant, and scenes were filmed around the Page locations revealing Nova's pregnancy. In the penultimate drafts of Planet of the Apes, Taylor was killed by the bullet of an ape sniper while Nova, pregnant with Taylor's child, escaped and vanished into the Forbidden Zone. Although Harrison believed it was Heston who rejected the idea of Nova's pregnancy, those scenes were deleted, according to screenwriter Michael Wilson, "at the insistence of a high-echelon Fox executive who found it distasteful. Why? I suppose that, if one defines the mute Nova as merely ‘humanoid’ and not actually human, it would mean that Taylor had committed sodomy."{{cite journal |last1=Winogura |first1=Dale |title=Planet of the Apes Issue |journal=Cinefantastique |date=Summer 1972 |url=https://pota.goatley.com/magazines/cinefantastique-summer-1972.pdf |accessdate=August 31, 2014}} It was also decided that Nova's pregnancy would detract from the film's ending. In any case, all Harrison's scenes with Heston and Hunter in the sequence of Nova's pregnancy were cut. "There's probably a great deal of footage of it somewhere."{{cite book |last1=Russo |first1=Joe |last2=Landsman |first2=Larry |last3=Gross |first3=Edward |title=Planet of the Apes Revisited: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Classic Science Fiction Saga |date=2001 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-312-25239-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312252397}} pp 26–27, 28, 30, 31, 58–59, 68, 78, 124, 129

Planet of the Apes was met with critical acclaim and is widely regarded as a classic. It was rated one of the best films of 1968, applauded for its imagination and its commentary on a possible world turned upside down.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/1968.html |title=The Greatest Films of 1968 |publisher=AMC Filmsite.org |access-date=May 21, 2010 |archive-date=April 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414065342/http://www.filmsite.org/1968.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.films101.com/y1968r.htm |title=The Best Movies of 1968 by Rank |publisher=Films101.com |access-date=May 21, 2010 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170438/http://www.films101.com/y1968r.htm |url-status=live }} Pauline Kael called it "one of the most entertaining science-fiction fantasies ever to come out of Hollywood".{{Cite book |last=Kael |first=Pauline |author-link=Pauline Kael |title=5001 Nights at the Movies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4LzeUZ03vQC |year=2011 |orig-year=1991 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1-250-03357-4 |page=586 |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-date=February 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214220331/https://books.google.com/books?id=w4LzeUZ03vQC |url-status=live }} Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four and called it "much better than I expected it to be. It is quickly paced, completely entertaining, and its philosophical pretensions don't get in the way".{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/planet-of-the-apes-1968 |title=Planet of the Apes |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=April 15, 1968 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=June 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606152041/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/planet-of-the-apes-1968 |url-status=live }} Renata Adler of The New York Times wrote, "It is no good at all, but fun, at moments, to watch."{{Cite news|last=Adler|first=Renata|date=1968-02-09|title=She Reads Playboy, He Reads Cosmopolitan:Ritual Roles Reversed in 'Sweet November' ' Planet of the Apes' and 'Winter' Also Open (Published 1968)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/09/archives/she-reads-playboy-he-reads-cosmopolitanritual-roles-reversed-in.html|access-date=2020-10-11|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605020320/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/09/archives/she-reads-playboy-he-reads-cosmopolitanritual-roles-reversed-in.html|url-status=live}} Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called it "an amazing film." He thought the script "at times digresses into low comedy", but "the totality of the film works very well".Murphy, Arthur D. (February 7, 1968). "Film Reviews: Planet of the Apes". Variety. 6. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "A triumph of artistry and imagination, it is at once a timely parable and a grand adventure on an epic scale."Thomas, Kevin (March 24, 1968). "'[https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=26872338&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjM4MjU1MjQ1MCwiaWF0IjoxNTYwMjkzNTMxLCJleHAiOjE1NjAzNzk5MzF9.aTKNmQ6dxJzxItG6rlXImzC0_qyWAaLHaN03HGskxvo Planet of Apes' Out of This World"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927080349/https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=26872338&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjM4MjU1MjQ1MCwiaWF0IjoxNTYwMjkzNTMxLCJleHAiOjE1NjAzNzk5MzF9.aTKNmQ6dxJzxItG6rlXImzC0_qyWAaLHaN03HGskxvo |date=September 27, 2020 }}. Los Angeles Times. Calendar, p. 18. Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called it an "amusing and unusually engrossing picture."Coe, Richard L. (April 12, 1968). "The Simians Take a Planet". The Washington Post. B6.

{{As of|2024|05|df=US}}, the film has an 86% rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 93 reviews with an average rating of 7.60/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Planet of the Apes raises thought-provoking questions about our culture without letting social commentary get in the way of the drama and action."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1016397-planet_of_the_apes/ |title=Planet of the Apes (1968) |publisher=Fandango Media |work=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=August 14, 2021 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011050140/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1016397-planet_of_the_apes/ |url-status=live }} On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 79 out of 100 based on 14 reviews.{{Cite web |title=Planet of the Apes critic reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/planet-of-the-apes-1968/critic-reviews/ |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=www.metacritic.com |language=en}} In 2008, the film was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[https://web.archive.org/web/20111011134651/https://www.empireonline.com/500/28.asp Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.] Empire magazine via Internet Archive. Accessed May 21, 2010.

According to Fox records the film required $12,850,000 in theater rentals to break even and made $20,825,000{{emdash}}a large profit for the studio.{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/327 327]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856}}

File:Kim Hunter in makeup Planet of the Apes.jpgThe film won an honorary Academy Award for John Chambers for his outstanding make-up achievement. The film was nominated for Best Costume Design (Morton Haack) and Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical) (Jerry Goldsmith).{{cite book |title=Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards |last1=Wiley |first1=Mason |last2=Bona |first2=Damien |editor1-first=Gail |editor1-last=MacColl |year=1986 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |page=768 }} The score is known for its avant-garde compositional techniques, as well as the use of unusual percussion instruments and extended performance techniques, as well as his 12-tone music (the violin part using all 12 chromatic notes) to give an eerie, unsettled feel to the planet, mirroring the sense of placelessness.

;American Film Institute Lists

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/movies400.pdf|title=America's Greatest Movies|date=2002|publisher=AFI|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052804/http://afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies400.pdf|archive-date=June 24, 2016|access-date=August 18, 2016}}
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – #59{{Cite web |title=AFI's 100 YEARS…100 THRILLS |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-thrills/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=American Film Institute |language=en}}
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
• Colonel George Taylor – Nominated Hero{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv400.pdf|title=AFI'S 100 Years 100 Heroes & Villains|publisher=AFI|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913234749/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv400.pdf|archive-date=September 13, 2016|access-date=August 18, 2016}}
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
• "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" – #66{{Cite web |title=AFI's 100 YEARS…100 MOVIE QUOTES |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movie-quotes/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=American Film Institute |language=en}}
• AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – #18{{Cite web |title=AFI's 100 YEARS OF FILM SCORES |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-of-film-scores/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=American Film Institute |language=en}}
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/Movies_ballot_06.pdf|title=AFI 100 Years 100 Movies|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052423/http://afi.com/Docs/100Years/Movies_ballot_06.pdf|archive-date=June 24, 2016|access-date=August 18, 2016}}
• AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Science Fiction Film[https://batatatransgenica.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/10top10.pdf AFI's 10 Top 10: Official Ballot] American Film Institute. Retrieved June 10, 2024.

National Film Registry

Among the 25 Films inducted into the Library of Congress for the year 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |website=Library of Congress|access-date=February 27, 2020|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191832/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|url-status=live}}

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Writer Rod Serling was brought back to work on an outline for a sequel. Serling's outline was ultimately discarded in favor of a story by associate producer Mort Abrahams and writer Paul Dehn, which became the basis for Beneath the Planet of the Apes.{{Page needed|date=August 2016}} The original film series had 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)
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

• Planet of the Apes (1974)
• Return to the Planet of the Apes (animated) (1975)

• Planet of the Apes (2001): A re-imagining of the original film, directed by Tim Burton.

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): A series reboot, directed by Rupert Wyatt, was released on August 5, 2011, to critical and commercial success. It is the first installment in the new series of films.{{cite web |last=Lussier |first=Germain |url=https://collider.com/set-visit-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/85807 |title=RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Set Visit and Video Blog |website=Collider |date=April 14, 2011 |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-date=March 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310200931/http://collider.com/set-visit-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/85807/ |url-status=live }}
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): The second entry in the Planet of the Apes reboot series, directed by Matt Reeves, was released on July 11, 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/matt-reeves-confirmed-to-helm-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/|title=Matt Reeves Confirmed to Helm 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'|last=Lussier|first=Germain|date=October 1, 2012|publisher=/Film|access-date=April 28, 2020|archive-date=June 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629190550/https://www.slashfilm.com/matt-reeves-confirmed-to-helm-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=112321|title=Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Moves Up One Week|last=Douglas|first=Edward|date=December 10, 2013|publisher=ComingSoon.net|access-date=December 10, 2013|archive-date=December 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212194620/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=112321|url-status=live}}
• War for the Planet of the Apes (2017): The third film in the reboot series, directed by Matt Reeves, was released on July 14, 2017.{{cite news|last=McNary|first=Dave|title=Channing Tatum's X-Men Spinoff to Hit Theaters in 2016|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/channing-tatums-x-men-spinoff-to-hit-theaters-in-2016-1201393233|newspaper=Variety|date=January 5, 2015|access-date=January 7, 2015|archive-date=August 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809214647/http://variety.com/2015/film/news/channing-tatums-x-men-spinoff-to-hit-theaters-in-2016-1201393233/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/channing-tatums-gambit-gets-2016-release-date-fantastic-four-sequel-moves-up/ |title=Channing Tatum's 'Gambit' Gets 2016 Release Date, 'Fantastic Four' Sequel Moves Up |author=Sneider, Jeff |date=January 5, 2015 |access-date=January 6, 2015 |archive-date=January 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106051121/http://www.thewrap.com/channing-tatums-gambit-gets-2016-release-date-fantastic-four-sequel-moves-up/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/new-planet-of-the-apes-movie-title-revealed/|title=New Planet of the Apes Movie Title Revealed|last=Goldberg|first=Matt|date=May 14, 2015|work=Collider|access-date=May 14, 2015|archive-date=May 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516091202/http://collider.com/new-planet-of-the-apes-movie-title-revealed/|url-status=live}}
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024): The fourth entry in the Planet of the Apes reboot series, directed by Wes Ball. It was released on May 10, 2024.{{Cite magazine |last=Couch |first=Aaron |date=October 11, 2022 |title=Marvel Shifts Dates for 'Avengers: Secret Wars,' 'Deadpool 3', 'Fantastic Four' and 'Blade' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marvel-release-dates-shift-avengers-secret-wars-1235239094/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011183748/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marvel-release-dates-shift-avengers-secret-wars-1235239094/ |archive-date=October 11, 2022 |access-date=October 11, 2022 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter}}

• Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998) A feature-length making-of documentary on the original film and TV series, hosted by Roddy McDowall.

• Comic book adaptations of the films were published by Gold Key (1970) and Marvel Comics (b/w magazine 1974–1977,[http://www.comics.org/series/2185/ Planet of the Apes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018095847/http://www.comics.org/series/2185/ |date=October 18, 2012 }} at the Grand Comics Database color comic book 1975–76).[http://www.comics.org/series/2231/ Adventures on the Planet of the Apes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626021210/http://www.comics.org/series/2231/ |date=June 26, 2012 }} at the Grand Comics Database Malibu Comics reprinted the Marvel adaptations when it held the license in the early 1990s, as well as producing new stories including Ape Nation, a crossover with Alien Nation. Dark Horse Comics published an adaptation for the 2001 Tim Burton film. Currently Boom! Studios has the licensing rights to Planet of the Apes. Its stories tell the tale of Ape City and its inhabitants before Taylor arrived. In July 2014, Boom! Studios and IDW Publishing published a crossover between Planet of the Apes and the original Star Trek series. In 2018, the original 1968 film's unused screenplay by Rod Serling was adapted into a graphic novel entitled Planet of the Apes: Visionaries.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rod-serlings-planet-apes-script-inspires-graphic-novel-1080728 |title=Rod Serling's 'Planet of the Apes' Script Inspires Graphic Novel (Exclusive) |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=February 1, 2018 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=November 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104034410/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rod-serlings-planet-apes-script-inspires-graphic-novel-1080728 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.geek.com/comics/planet-of-the-apes-visionaries-1750357/ |title=Planet of the Apes: Visionaries is Unpredictable, Stunning and Wild |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Insha |date=September 3, 2018 |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=September 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906063049/https://www.geek.com/comics/planet-of-the-apes-visionaries-1750357/ |url-status=live }}

A parody of the film series titled "The Milking of the Planet That Went Ape" was published in Mad Magazine. It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by Arnie Kogen in regular issue #157, March 1973.{{cite web |url=http://www.madcoversite.com/mad157.html |title=Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site – Mad #157 |publisher=Madcoversite.com |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-date=April 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410035738/http://www.madcoversite.com/mad157.html |url-status=live }}

The cartoon The Fairly OddParents "Abra-Catastrophe!" special has Timmy Turner and his archenemy Denzel Crocker ending up in an alternate Earth where apes are the masters and humans are slaves.

The Simpsons episode "A Fish Called Selma" includes a theatrical production of a musical version of the film titled "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!."

TV Globo, Brazil's largest television network (and second in the world), aired from 1976 to 1982 a sketch called Planeta dos Homens (Planet of the Men) where three apes from a highly evolved ape planet tried to comprehend the illogical human civilization.

In 2001 the controversial Irish comedy/horror puppet series Podge and Rodge - A Scare at Bedtime (Double Z Productions) included an episode entitled ‘Monkey Do’. It featured a music video ‘Never Turn Your Back on a Monkey’ which contains many references to both the original 1968 film as well as the 2001 Tim Burton remake. It includes a parody of the famous end shot that replaces The Statue of Liberty with a colossal, time and weather-ravaged version of Dublin’s famous statue of Molly Malone, half-buried in the sands and mist of Dublin Bay.

In the DreamWorks animated film, Madagascar, Alex the lion builds a totem he calls 'lady liberty', which he intends to light up to enable passing ships to see, and rescue him from the island. Melvin the giraffe mistakenly creates fire from two sticks he had been rubbing, and in his panic he lights up lady liberty, who goes up in flames. The burnt shell crumbles from the waist down only leaving the upper half of the torso visible, similar to the statue of liberty in the final scene. Alex then gets on his knees and utters "you maniacs!! You burned it up!!"{{fact|date=March 2025}}

File:Lake Powell in Arizona.jpg|The crash of the astronauts' spacecraft was partially filmed in and around Lake Powell.

File:Horseshoebend smt.jpg|Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River, near Page, Arizona, was a part of the Forbidden Zone, through which Taylor, Zira, and Cornelius fled Ape City.

File:Malibu creek1.jpg|Malibu Creek State Park, part of which was formerly the 20th Century Fox Movie Ranch, was the location of the astronauts' initial encounter with primitive humans and superior apes, and of Cornelius, Zira and Taylor's escape from Ape City.

File:Point Dume Climbing.JPG|The final scene was filmed at Point Dume's Westward Beach on the Malibu coast.

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• Planet of the Apes essay [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/planet_apes.pdf] by John Wills at the National Film Registry
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  • Planet of the Apes essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 632–633 [https://books.google.com/books?id=deq3xI8OmCkC]

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