While not a critical success, the film grossed approximately $180 million domestically. Tim Burton put his spin on Planet of the Apes in 2001. In the end, hundreds of years later, the humans and apes have learned to coexist. Gorilla General Aldo (Akins) and warring human factions want war and as the title suggest a battle ensues. However, not all the apes think this way. Caesar, leader of the apes would like there to be peace between the apes and the enslaved humans. McDowall reprised his role as Caesar and Claude Akins and Natalie Trundy also starred. Lee Thompson returned for directing duties on the project.
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May 23, 1973, the fifth movie of the series, Battle for the Planet of the Apes was released.
Zira and Cornelius’ son Caesar leads the apes in a revolution against the humans. With cats and dogs having gone extinct in 1983 due to a disease, humans have begun to take apes as pets. The film also stars Don Murray and Ricardo Montalban and was directed by J. McDowall who previously played Cornelius in both the 1st and 3rd Apes movies is now back playing Caesar. The film grossed a little more than $12 million dollars domestically.Ĭonquest of the Planet of the Apes came out on Jand made considerably less money than the previous films, taking in a gross of around $9 million dollars. Though Zira and Cornelius die at the end of the film, their baby Milo (later named Caesar) is born and lives on. They are soon fearful for their lives when suspicions arise from the President’s scientific advisor after Zira is found to be pregnant. Milo (Mineo) return to the 20th century in Taylor’s spaceship. After the destruction of their planet in the last film, Zira, Cornelius and Dr. Directed by Don Taylor, the film again starred McDowall and Hunter as well as Bradford Dillman and Sal Mineo. The third movie in the series, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, was released on May 21, 1971. An epic battle between the apes and humans take place at the end of the film and the bomb is set off by a dying Taylor.
The movie focuses on a rescue mission for Colonel Taylor (Heston) led by Brent (Franciscus) who discovers a group of telepathic mutated humans who live below the city and worship a “doomsday” bomb. The film also featured James Franciscus and Maurice Evans. Hunter and Harrison reprise their roles as Zira and Nova in this sequel. The Fox-distributed film grossed more than $32 million domestically.īeneath the Planet of the Apes debuted two years later on and had a domestic total gross of just under $19 million dollars.
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They have learned how to speak and how to use technology whereas men are an uncivilized species with no language. In the film, Colonel George Taylor (played by Heston) and his crew come out of hibernation in the future to find they have crash landed on a planet where apes are dominant.
Schaffner and starred Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Linda Harrison and Kim Hunter. The first Planet of the Apes movie was released on February 8, 1968. Besides the feature films, there were also a number of made-for-television projects that spawned from the series, Through its 30-plus-year run, the Apes movies managed to attract talent such as Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban and more recently, Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter. With Friday’s release of the newest Planet of the Apes movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Hollywood Reporter looks back at the origins of the successful franchise.
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