Despite the success of these movies, by the timeBattle for the Planet of the Apesarrived, the franchise had begun to feel doomed. The reasons were largely financial. Although the originalPlanet of the Apesbecame a cultural phenomenon, executives at 20th Century Foxslashed the budgetof each succe...
Planetof the Apeswas filmed almost entirely on location in the Arizona desert. This was in the middle of summer with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. This extreme heat made the costumes and heavy makeup even more excruciating to wear. The heat in the desert scenes at the opening of the f...
Most film franchises also start without any plans to survive beyond the production of the initial outing. When the firstPlanet of the Apesmovie premiered on Feb. 8, 1968, nobody was sketching future installments involvingunderground mutants, areturn to present-day Earthor anrebellious uprisingthat...
I didn’t have many Apes comics. You’d think I would have but I just wasn’t aware of them enough. What I did have was a pretty awesome Power Records adaptation ofEscape From the Planet of the Apes, which was a comic accompanied by a record. You’d play the record and read the ...
The Apes are back again, but this time in an adventure on the PC that follows the storyline from the Charlton Heston movie of 1968, not the Tim Burton remake of 2001. Your character looks like Heston, and the story sequences feature an unusual amount of dialogue for a video game, a ...
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary ofPlanet of the Apes, let’s have fun with some more interesting facts about one of my favorite movies! Planet of the Apes, 20th Century-Fox Production Facts: The film was adapted from a 1963 novel by French author Pierre Boulle, the same author of the ...