Planet of the Apes (1968) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Planet of the Apes can be found here . What is 'Planet of the Apes' about? Three U.S. astronauts -- Taylor ( Charlton Heston ), Landon ( Robert Gunner ), and Dodge ( Jeff Burton ) -- awaken from hypersleep to find that their spaceship has crash landed on an unknown planet where apes are the intelligent species and humans are prelingual and uncivilized.

Taylor is captured and held in a cage with human female Nova ( Linda Harrison ) and befriended by chimpanzee scientists Zira ( Kim Hunter ) and Cornelius ( Roddy McDowall ), who are surprised when they learn that Taylor can read, write, and speak. Cornelius believes that Taylor may be a survivor of an ancient human race of which he has found evidence in his archeological digs, but orangutan Minister of Science, Doctor Zaius ( Maurice Evans ), considers this idea to be heresy and orders Taylor be turned over for brain research. Is "Planet of the Apes" based on a book? Planet of the Apes is based on the 1963 novel La Planï¿½te des Singes by French writer Pierre Boulle. It was translated into English by British writer and translator Xan Fielding and published as Monkey Planet (1963). The novel was adapted for the screen by American screenwriter Rod Serling, then rewritten by Michael Wilson.

It was followed by 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), and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). In what year does the story take place? The spaceship's calendar says that it is Earth year 3978, just over 2000 years after Taylor and his crew took off from Cape Canaveral in 1972. Because they have been traveling at close to the speed of light, they have not aged significantly. To them, it's only been 18 months. What was the ape hierarchy in the film? It's unclear as to whether there was an actual hierarchy. Some viewers saw the orangutans on top, the gorillas at the bottom, and the chimps in between. Others felt it was more of a demarcation in preference of professions.

The gorillas, with their strength and apparent appreciation for authority, tended to join the military and law enforcement; the orangutans tended to prefer political and religious professions; and the chimpanzees, with their curiosity, seemed to prefer scientific (and probably adventuresome) professions. Given the fact that the apes' philosophy seems fundamentally based on religious doctrines of ape dominance, it is implied that this gives the orangutans, the defendors of the faith, a significant basis of influence (comparable to clerical leaders in deeply religious areas). However you look at the ape hierarchy, one thing was perfectly clear...humans were beneath them all. Why did the apes immediately lobotomize Landon but not Taylor? Landon was hit in the head with a club during the round-up and, according to Dr Zaius, suffered a skull fracture. Taylor was shot in the neck and was unable to speak for several days (possibly weeks?) afterward.

Consequently, many viewers have surmised that Landon may have been screaming and cursing after he was captured and that Dr Zaius had him immediately lobotomized to hide the fact that he was a human with the ability to speak -- people who suffer severe brain injuries often become "altered", that is, their brain starts acting abnormally and they can become belligerent or even violent, which could have been the case with Landon. Although there is no onscreen evidence to prove that's how it happened, it can be noted that Zaius must have known that Landon also had the ability to speak. In the office scene in which Zaius accuses Taylor of being a mutant, Taylor asks "How can the appearance of one mutant send you into a panic?" Zaius replies, "Because you're not unique. There's the one you call Landon." Why was Dr. Zaius trying to stop Zira and Cornelius' studies even before Taylor was captured? Even before they met Taylor, Zira and Cornelius were close to discovering Zaius' secret. Zira's studies on animal behavior was beginning to reveal hints as to the true intelligence potential of humankind.

Cornelius was poking around the Forbidden Zone, and was starting to unearth artifacts of an advanced pre-ape culture. Dr. Zaius knew they would eventually put their findings together, discover that man was once the dominant species, and confront the Ruling Council with their findings, which would eventually reveal that the Ministry knew the truth all along and was trying desperately to keep it hidden. Zaius and the Council knew about man's potential, as well as their capacity for self-destruction, so it was important that humanity was kept in check; if humans were to be declared equal to apes, they could rise again, and their history of war and destruction would be repeated. As Dr. Zaius tells Taylor near the end, 'All my life I've awaited your coming, and dreaded it.' Even before Taylor enters the picture, Dr. Zaius saw what Zira and Cornelius were close to finding, and this was what he was trying to stop. How did the apes evolve? The evolution of apes into sentient beings and humans into mere animals is not explained in the movie. Some viewers have surmised that the apes evolved into more advanced forms after the apparent nuclear war, following which most of humanity was destroyed.

Others suggest that surviving apes were affected by the radiation fallout to the effect that they either mutated or evolved very quickly.The remaining humans either were subdued and eventually dumbed down by lack of a structured knowledge or were possibly affected in a negative way by the radiation. In the book, however, the story takes place on a different, but very earth-like, world. There, mankind started using the apes for medical experimentation, ultimately in great masses as part of an all-out effort to cure cancer. They then had these huge numbers of apes and found that they were easily trained to do mundane household tasks. The apes were brought into people's homes to work as domestic servants. This situation went on for several centuries and, at the same time, mankind was getting lazier and lazier. People had apes to do everything for them, while the apes were getting smarter and more discontent with their situation. Eventually, the apes learn to talk and finally they simply take over. Mankind by this time had not only become physically lazy but mentally as well. When the apes take over, humans can put up no resistance. How does Zaius know about the statue?

Towards the end of the movie, Zaius lets Taylor go with the warning, "You may not like what you find." This doesn't necessarily mean that Zaius knows about the statue, as the Forbidden Zone has been restricted for centuries and he probably never entered it. However, it is conceivable that at some earlier point in history, some apes entered the zone and encountered the statue; this was instant proof of man's prior superiority on Earth, which went against common doctrine of ape superiority. It is also possible that apes in the early stages of civilization had always known about man's superiority, and invented the doctrine of ape superiority, so that the remaining human population would be kept uncivilized, and could never again become the dominant species. So they decided to declare the area forbidden, and pass on this knowledge to other scientists so that they would keep it secret from ape society. The one thing Zaius does know, as he admits when he tells Taylor, "I have always known about man," is that man was once the dominant primate on the planet. It might also be assumed that Zaius knows it was man who destroyed the Eastern seaboard.

This may be what Zaius thinks Taylor may learn if he pokes around in the Forbidden Zone. What happened to the moon? The movie does not make it clear what became of the planet's moon. One possibility is that it was blown up and formed a ring of smaller rocks and dust around the planet. That would account for one of the astronauts saying "There's always a 'strange cloud cover at night'." Another possibility is that the story happened during the new moon, so the moon simply wasn't visible. Planet of the Apes: A Timeline and An Explanation Planet of the Apes: A Timeline and An Explanation Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters this Friday with a moving tale of genetically-altered apes who achieve human-level intelligence. But how does this film fit into the complicated time-travel tangles of the 40-year-old franchise? Let's investigate. Advertisement Illustration for io9 by the fantastic Stephanie Fox! Planet of the Apes The Planet of the Apes franchise started with La Planète des singes, a somewhat satirical French novel by Pierre Boulle published in 1963, about a human astronaut landing on a planet full of intelligent apes and devolved humans.

But the story really took off in 1968 with the release of American scifi action flick Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston as an astronaut who overstays his time in hypersleep by a couple of millennia. When he crash-lands on a planet, he thinks he's found an alien world ruled by apes, but eventually realizes he's in Earth's distant future, where apes rule the planet. He's befriended by the scientist chimps Zira and Cornelius, who dub Heston "bright eyes" and keep him as a lab animal. We know he took off from Earth in 1972, and has landed in 3978, because of some helpful chronometer readouts in his ship, the Icarus. Time out for rebootery! Planet of the Apes (Burton Version) In Tim Burton's reboot of Planet of the Apes, Heston replacement Mark Wahlberg takes off in a ship in 2029, and lands on another planet, ruled by apes, in 5021. Why make it so much further in the future? Did that really seem more realistic? Who the hell knows.

At the end, Wahlberg returns to contemporary Earth and finds that it is run by apes too. This is similar to the original French novel, except that the astronaut in that book returned to Earth 700 years in the future. So actually it's not like the French novel at all, and it makes no sense. Please do not see this movie. Beneath the Planet of the Apes In the popular but critically-panned sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, a rescue party comes to find Heston's ship. They discover a tiny group of super-mutated, psychic humans living underground, worshiping a nuclear warhead. There's a huge battle between the apes and the underground humans, which results in the warhead going off and destroying the planet for good. I am assuming that this movie takes place right after the first one, since we see Heston fleeing the apes at the beginning, just as he was at the end of the 1968 film. But it's possible that a few years have elapsed. Also, bizarrely, the preview for the movie pegs it as 3955. I give up.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes Luckily for Zira and Cornelius, there is a way out of nuclear apocalypse: Use the Icarus to travel back in time to 1973! And that's just what they do in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Zira and Cornelius, the time-traveling, talking apes, become celebrities. Until Zira gets drunk and lets slip that she used to have human lab animals and dissected them. Then the humans lock the chimps up, and torture them for information about the future. Ape sympathizers help them escape, but not before Zira's newborn baby Milo (later renamed Caesar) is hidden safely with an animal trainer. Advertisement This is when I would argue that we get two branching timelines in the Apes franchise. I'm sure there are other interpretations, especially since I'm basically trying to impose sense on a franchise whose time travel story nobody bothered to keep in continuity. So here goes. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes In one timeline, we follow Caesar's life 20 years after the death of his parents.

In the intervening years, a virus has wiped out most dogs and cats on Earth, so humans have taken to keeping apes as pets. No, there is no good reason why they do this instead of keeping rats or foxes or whatever. Quickly the humans realize that apes make better slaves than pets, and the world is quickly divided into a slave ape class, trained to be as human as possible, and a ruling human class. Caesar is the companion of Ricardo Montalban (yay!), an ape sympathizer. Caesar eventually leads an ape rebellion against the humans. Originally, the film ended with a scene (see at left) where the apes slaughter humans violently and Caesar looks on with an expression of grim acceptance. This would have been the perfect entree to the world of Apes that Heston later encounters, where humans are reviled. But test audiences hated it, so the ending was softened so that Caesar's girlfriend screams "no!" when the beating begins, and Caesar follows it with a moving speech about having mercy on humans and living in harmony. Time out for rebootery!

Rise of the Planet of the Apes In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, coming out this Friday, the timeline is definitely going to be different. I hesitate to call this movie a reboot, because this film is really a complete re-imagining of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. We do hear about the Mars-bound spaceship Icarus disappearing, presumably starting the time-travel timeline. But the apes' rise is going to be very different from the one in Conquest, because Caesar and his troop have been uplifted by a gene therapy virus — which changes the playing field with humans in ways you'll just have to discover for yourself by seeing the movie! The Caesar of this film is, if anything, much more merciful than the Caesar of Conquest — he tries to prevent the apes from killing humans, and seems to want only freedom, not conquest.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes This film takes place 10 years after the events of Conquest, though it also has a frame story set 600 years in the future, where a wise ape is telling the story of events we're about to witness in "the present." This future is clearly different from the one Heston will encounter in the original Planet, because humans and apes are living in harmony. We witness the rise of ape civilization in this movie, but Caesar cautions the apes not to enslave and brutalize humans. It seems that we're witnessing an alternate future from the one where Caesar's parents came from, where apes were unequivocally masters of the world and humans are animals without language or culture. Advertisement OK, now for the other timeline spawned by the events in Conquest. This would be the timeline that leads to the original Apes movie, where Heston crash-lands on future Earth. The confusing part comes when you try to reconcile the events of the short-lived Apes TV series with the original Apes movie. Planet of the Apes TV series This series is set in 3085, with astronauts crash-landing on future Earth just the way Heston and Co.

did in the first movie. The date would set the events of this series about 900 years before Heston's crash, but apes in the show tell our human characters that a ship similar to theirs landed "ten years ago." Clearly this is supposed to be the ship from the first movie. So let's give the writers the benefit of the doubt, and assume they thought about this as hard as we are right now. Maybe they set it 900 years earlier because Caesar's parents going back in time has changed the timeline and caused Apes to happen almost a millennium earlier? I know that makes no sense at all, but it's the best I've got.

Gear from Kinja Deals Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Planet of the Apes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2,224pages on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Director 130 minutes (2 hours and 10 minutes) Continuity One Last Chance For Peace ” — Unofficial Tagline Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the 2014 sequel to the 2011 science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes . Andy Serkis , returns as Caesar , the chimpanzee revolutionary while stuntman Terry Notary returns to reprise his role as Caesar's hairless chimpanzee best friend, Rocket . Karin Konoval returns as Caesar's trusted orangutan best friend Maurice . The film features Judy Greer who plays Caesar's wife, Cornelia (replacing dancer Devyn Dalton in the role). The film also stars Nick Thurston who joins the cast as Caesar and Cornelia's teenage son, Blue Eyes . While Toby Kebbell joins the cast as Caesar's rival Koba (replacing Christopher Gordon in the role).

The film also stars Keri Russell as Ellie , Jason Clarke as Malcolm , and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Alexander , the human family which Caesar encounters while Gary Oldman joins the cast as Dreyfus , the human antagonist. Contents Edit 10 years from now, [1] Caesar tries to maintain order over a growing nation of genetically evolved apes who are threatened by a band of humans in San Francisco, survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade and a half earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species. Plot Edit Starting in 2016 , Hunsiker , the first known carrier of the ALZ-113 virus, spreads the infection first in France, then to Europe, then all over the world. Entire governments trace where the virus started, which is San Francisco. As entire governments of every nation in the world, is trying to find a cure but proves difficult. The virus causes many nations to declare martial law, and massive civil unrest breaks out, followed by power outage, and causing millions of deaths worldwide.

The virus finally causes the collapse of human civilization and the economic collapse of every country in the world. Ten years later, Caesar now leads and governs a new generation of apes in a community located in the Muir Woods Park . The group includes comrades from the ape sanctuary (notably Rocket and Maurice) as well as Koba, the scarfaced bonobo formerly experimented on at Gen-sys. Caesar leads the apes on a hunting party for deer, where his adolescent son, Blue Eyes, is scarred by an attacking grizzly bear but is saved by Caesar and Koba. Afterwards, Caesar is summoned to his home in the apes' newly built village, where his sick wife has given birth to a newborn son. Blue Eyes and Ash (son of Rocket) encounter a small party of armed survivors in the forest led by a man named Malcolm. In a panic, Carver, holding deep distrust for the apes, shoots and wounds Ash. Caesar and the other apes appear ordering the humans to leave the woods, but sends Koba and two other apes to allow them.

It is revealed a group of humans genetically immune to the virus have established a guarded safe-haven inside a semi-built tower in the heart of post-apocalyptic San Francisco. The Ape Council then debates over to wage war against the humans since they attacked one of their own. However, Caesar is against this, stating the apes have created so much and can't afford to lose themselves in war. He is soon told by Koba that he will do anything Caesar ordered due to him liberating him from human torture, but states the apes most show strength to which Caesar agrees. The next day, Caesar preemptively leads the ape army to a face-to-face confrontation with the humans at the tower where he speaks to the surprise of the people there. Caesar shouts: "Apes do not want war! But will fight if we must!". Caesar then orders the humans to stay in their own territory while the apes stay in their own. He personally orders Malcolm, the safe-haven's co-founder, to never enter ape territory again and, after returning Malcolm's son's satchel, the apes leave.

Malcolm convinces the human camp's leader Dreyfus to give him three days to reconcile with the apes to gain access to a hydroelectric dam in their territory, which could provide long-term power to the city. Dreyfus reluctantly agrees, but is distrustful of the apes and arms survivors using an abandoned armory in preparation for war if Malcolm doesn't return. Malcolm and his group then head to Ape Territory, he tells them he's going in alone and says if he's not back in an hour they must leave. Malcolm then heads into the Ape Village where he is spotted by a gorilla named Luca who alerts the other gorillas and captures Malcolm. The apes bring the human to Caesar where he gives his reason for disobeying the rule Caesar gave. Koba encourages him to kill Malcolm on the spot, but Malcolm begs him not to and says if he is a threat to them they have permission to kill him where he stand. Seeing possible peace between the races, Caesar allows Malcolm to work on the dam's generator provided that humans give up their guns and work unarmed. Time and time again, Caesar is unable to successfully teach Blue Eyes about the humans' capacity for good he witnessed while growing up.

As Malcolm, his wife Ellie, and son Alexander work, they bond with the apes. Trust temporarily comes to a standstill as Carver threatens both of Caesar's sons with a concealed weapon, but later Ellie helps treat Caesar's sick wife with antibiotics. Koba secretly discovers the armory and confronts Caesar's allegiance, mocking him over his "love" for humans. Caesar heavily beats Koba for his insolence, but forgives him, citing his law that "Ape not kill ape". Despite being forgiven, a furious Koba secretly plans to overthrow Caesar. Koba steals an assault rifle from the armory after murdering two human guards. Later that night, power is eventually restored to the city; the humans rejoice and Malcolm's team celebrates with the apes. Meanwhile, Koba ambushes Carver and beats him to death, stealing his hat and lighter. He then has his two henchapes, Grey and Stone, set the apes' home on fire. In hiding, Koba shoots Caesar in the shoulder as the two lock eyes, causing him to fall off a cliff.

The ape village then goes up in flames and the colony grows frantic with the loss of their Alpha Male and homes as Blue Eyes locates the gun showing it to the colony. Maurice helps Malcolm and his family escape into hiding. Koba then appears and, while brainwashing Blue Eyes and the other apes, blames Malcolm's team for Caesar's death and burning of the colony home. Assuming leadership, he declares war on the humans as retribution. Having the young and females into hiding, he leads the male apes to battle in San Francisco. The Ape Army then charge through the woods, overwhelm the human armory and charge the tower’s gates heavily armed. A fierce battle erupts between the two colonies and the already damaged city suffers more damage. Despite the heavy casualties on both sides, Koba and the apes overrun the gates using a hijacked tank, allowing the apes to enter the city and place it in utter chaos. In the process, many humans are killed or captured as Dreyfus flees underground. The next morning, the apes pursue a group of fleeing humans into a building hunting down as many defenseless humans as they can.

When Ash refuses to follows Koba's orders to kill an unarmed man, citing Caesar's teachings, Koba kills Ash right before Blue Eyes and the other apes. The power-mad Bonobo states: "Caesar gone! Apes follow Koba now!" With that he has all the apes imprison all the humans in containment units desiring for them to "know life in cage". On a bus adjacent to the human cages, Blue Eyes finds Maurice, Rocket, Luca and several others jailed due to Koba feeling they are all still loyal to Caesar. Maurice tells Blue Eyes to protect himself as Koba orders the apes to find and capture any remaining free humans still in the city. Malcolm, Ellie, and Alexander who hid from the rampaging apes, find Caesar barely alive and Caesar informs them that it was Koba, not Carver who shot him. The humans gather Caesar up transport him to San Francisco which is now under the apes control. Caesar then guides the humans to his former home where Malcolm’s family discover Caesar’s upbringing with humans. Ellie notes on Caesar's failing condition and he needs treatment but her medical supplies are in the city to which Malcolm volunteers to retrieve.

Malcolm then travels through the city while avoiding the patrolling apes is able obtain the medical supplies and crosses paths with Blue Eyes who he persuades to spare him and Malcolm tells the prince his father is still alive. Malcolm returns to the Rodman House with Ellie's supplies and brings Blue Eyes back with him to Caesar. Ellie proceeds to operate on Caesar as he and Blue Eyes embrace, updating, and forgiving each other. Caesar then rests as his son finds a picture of Caesar and Will Rodman together before his father awakens. Caesar then laments on his misguided views of thinking apes were better than humans, having now seen what they're capable of and realizing the two races are not so different after all. Blue Eyes aids his father by freeing the humans and the apes loyal to Caesar while a resting Caesar becomes nostalgic examining mementos from his childhood. The freed apes join Caesar and Malcolm guides through the city subway but they are forced to separate when Malcolm reunites with Dreyfus and his remaining men. Malcolm is then told by Dreyfus that he and his men are planning to ignite a series of C4 explosives underneath the tower.

Malcolm, however, holds Dreyfus and the others at gunpoint wanting to buy Caesar time to end the chaos. As this happens, Caesar and his followers confront Koba at the summit of the tower. After a brief exchange of words, a battle for power begins between the two apes and soon goes across the tower with the other apes watching intently. Back underground, Dreyfus informs Malcolm that his men have already made radio contact with another band of survivors on their way to fight the apes in San Francisco. Dreyfus then steals the C4 trigger stating "I'm saving the human race" before pressing the button igniting the explosives. The explosion simultaneously kills Dreyfus and his men while Malcolm narrowly manages to hide for cover. The explosion destroys a majority of the underground area as well collapsing part of the tower, injuring and killing several apes. As Caesar, Blue Eyes and the other apes assist the injured, Koba picks up a gun and opens fire on the apes, wounding Maurice. Enraged, Caesar jumps at Koba and tackles him, sending them both tumbling. Caesar falls to safety while Koba left dangling on a ledge, clinging for dear life.

Koba begs Caesar to save him, citing the "Ape not kill ape" law. Caesar grabs Koba's hand but looking upon the chaos Koba has caused, he firmly declares Koba is not an ape before letting go of his hand, sending the treacherous, screaming bonobo falling to his death in the pit. Caesar and Malcolm's goodbye. The remaining apes then cheer on Caesar while the latter expresses remorse for his former friend. The apes then reunite with the females and young but Caesar notices Grey and other apes holding Malcolm at gunpoint, he orders them to leave him and Malcolm informs Caesar of the impending arrival of human reinforcements. He implores Caesar to leave the city ore else there would be an all-out war. However, Caesar refuses stating: "War has already begun. Ape started war. And human...human will not forgive." Caesar instead tells Malcolm to take his family and leave for safety before the fighting begins while apologizing to his new friend. The two mourn their lost chance for peace before embracing and parting ways wishing the other luck. As Malcolm slips away into the shadows, Caesar embraces his family and the remaining apes proceed to bow down to him ready for Caesar to lead them into war.

Caesar then looks into the horizon awaiting the conflict started by Koba to begin. After the credits, sounds of heavy breathing and unidentified rubble sounds are heard. Cast and Crew Edit Andy Serkis as Caesar - a common chimpanzee, the leader of the apes and king of the Ape Colony , Cornelia's husband, and the father of Blue Eyes and Milo. Toby Kebbell as Koba - a scarred bonobo and Caesar's former friend, former adviser and former lieutenant, now rival and archenemy. Nick Thurston as Blue Eyes - Caesar and Cornelia's teenage son, prince of the Ape Colony and the older brother of Milo. Karin Konoval as Maurice - an orangutan, Caesar's first best friend and one of his advisers and lieutenants, a teacher and the Ape Colony's overseer. Terry Notary as Rocket - a chimpanzee and Caesar's third best friend and one of his lieutenants, former rival and the father of Ash. Judy Greer as Cornelia - a female chimpanzee and Caesar's wife, queen of the Ape Colony and the mother of Blue Eyes and Milo. Doc Shaw as Ash - the teenage son of Rocket, and Blue Eyes' best friend.

Richard King as Stone - a chimpanzee who is a follower of Koba and assists him with his plans. Lee Ross as Grey - a chimpanzee who is another of Koba's followers. Scott Lang as Luca - a gorilla, Caesar's good friend and one of his lieutenants. CGI as Milo - the newborn son of Caesar and Cornelia, the younger brother of Blue Eyes, and the second prince of the Ape Colony . Humans Barack Obama as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) John Parsons as Human Colony Member (uncredited) Timothy Pickles as Human Colony Member (uncredited) Diezel Ramos as Colony Survivor (uncredited) Gus Rhodes as Colony Survivor (uncredited) Edwin Richardson as Human colonist (uncredited) Ryan Daniel Rodriguez as Armed Colony Member (uncredited) Carl Schreiber as Human Colonist (uncredited) Connie Jo Sechrist as City Hall Colonist (uncredited) Kerry Sims as Dreyfus Officer (uncredited) Valerie Strecker as Dreyfus Officer (uncredited) Jimmy Sweetwater as Human Colonist (uncredited) Joseph Uzzell as Armed Human Colonist (uncredited) M.

Jearl Vinot as Human Colonist (uncredited) Jason Watson as Capture Human (uncredited) Steven Wiig as Human Colony Survivor (uncredited) Douglas Wilcox II as Human Colonist (uncredited) Caleb Wiley as Human Colonist (uncredited) Timothy Wyant as Attacked First Running Colonist (uncredited) Lynnanne Zager as Newscaster (voice) (uncredited) Ahmed Zakzouk as Human (uncredited) Production Crew Edit Very soon after the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes , speculation began on a potential sequel. Director Rupert Wyatt had many ideas already: "Caesar is a revolutionary figure who will be talked about by his fellow apes for centuries... This is just the first step in the evolution of the apes, and there's a lot more stories to tell after this. I imagine the next film will be about the all-out war between the apes and humans".

[2] "You could start this story again eight years from where we left off, the next generation of apes, those that have come from our protagonists, perhaps going in to a conflict with humans and showing real fear, in the same way as going into war for young soldiers in this day and age, telling their story. Or how apes are taking over cities, and being moved into human environments and having to interact with them and deal with things that are part of our culture and understand and evolve through them." [3] "The great thing is you can have the next generation of apes who have grown up within the paradise they find [at the end of the first film]. You can have a new generation evolve who have inherited the genes, and they're the ones that are going into battle; they are the ones displaying real fear as young soldiers when they're going into battle. Think 'Full Metal Jacket'... that kind of urban environment not dissimilar to Western forces going into Baghdad. Remember when the soldiers were finding gold telephones in Hussein's home?

It would be the same way that the apes would understand our species through what we've created - whether it be TV or cooking or whatever it may be." "There's so much we can do. Whereas the story of the first film plays out as a fairy tale, the next film will play out as a Shakespearean sci-fi drama where you'll have Caesar as the leader of this revolution, but Koba would be the one leading his own troops wanting to wipe out humans in a genocide. But Caesar is more conflicted, and maybe Caesar needs Koba's assistance in terms of the conflict. And Maurice is his advisor and he's telling him to combine forces. Caesar needs the allegiance of the two, although he doesn't believe in what Koba believes in, which is complete genocide." "You could always portray the human face through that of a resistance leader or the guy who is trying to find a cure for the virus [that's killing humans]. Maybe it's a little bit like 12 Monkeys, where every human has gone underground to avoid the virus, and when they come up to the surface they're wearing gas masks. In a way, that would de-humanize them and would make us really follow the apes.

That's what interests me. This shouldn't be apes as our enemy, this should be about the idea of a whole new civilization coming into being. With the beauty of modern cinema, we, the audience, have an opportunity to witness that." [4] In April 2012, Fox's Tom Rothman announced that Rupert Wyatt and Andy Serkis were committed to a sequel, which "will be a summer '14 movie." "We've got to have a great script. Because now, having made that good a movie, we better make the next one better." "I think one of the big questions they're wrestling with now, which is kind of the fun, is how far forward do we skip? When does it start? Does it start the next day? The next year? Does it start in 10 years? Does it start in 50 years?" [5] In May 2012, Scott Z. Burns (writer of Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion) took over from Amanda Silver & Rick Jaffa as scriptwriter for the sequel.

[6] Soon after, it was announced that the sequel would be titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, with a provisional release date of 23 May 2014, [7] but by October Matt Reeves (Let Me In) had replaced Wyatt as director of the project, using the existing script by Silver and Jaffa. Later in October, Mark Bomback was hired to rework the script, having already done some uncredited work on Silver and Jaffa’s script for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. [8] [9] [10] At the end of 2012, James Franco revealed, "I was going to be a small part of the next one. There was a moment when Rupert Wyatt was going to direct the second one. A lot of the human characters that were in the first movie were dead in the sequel that Rupert was going to direct. But there was one scene, between Caesar and my character, maybe even just like on a video that was left behind, but then a lot of things happened, like Tom Rothman, who was a big part of the first movie, left. Now Rupert's not a part of it so I don't know.

My guess is I won't be in it. Nobody's talked to me since Rupert left". [11] February and March brought news that the cast would include Gary Oldman as human leader Dreyfus , Judy Greer (13 Going On 30) as Cornelia , Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi Smit-McPhee and Keri Russell (Matt Reeves' and J. J. Abrams' Felicity and Abrams' Mission: Impossible 3). The plot would take place 15 years after "Rise" and deal with two groups: "One focus is on the group of human scientists who are struggling to survive alone in San Francisco. Another aspect of the story is the struggle of intelligent ape Caesar...to maintain dominance over his kingdom". [12] Filming Edit The first quarter of shooting was scheduled to begin on April 2nd 2013 at the Campbell River area on North Vancouver Island - chosen for its similarity to the locations depicted in the film, the forests, and the variety of landscapes - before moving to New Orleans from May 1st to July 14th.

[13] Special Effects Edit This movie, featuring even more apes will again use CGI technology to animate the apes. However this time around the team has chosen to hire acrobats instead of just stuntmen who were used in Rise of the Planet of the Apes . Dawn even boasts Cirque du Soleil performers as members of their cast. “Instead of a VFX (visual effects) guy trying to make up what it would be like for a chimpanzee to fly from limb to limb, now we have guys that can actually jump the 20 feet,” producer Dylan Clark says. The cast of Dawn features a much larger cast of apes then it's predecessor Rise. Dylan Clark again spoke about thier endevours with this technology saying “We want the chimpanzees to act and look and be photorealistic, We want this movie to feel real. If we pull this off, it’ll be supercool.” Read more at [1] What Year Is The Film Set? Edit The official 20th Century Fox / Chernin Entertainment website for the movie states "TIME SINCE HUMAN AND APE CONTACT: 10 YEARS.

CURRENT YEAR: 2026." This would place the events of Rise in 2008 (Caesar's birth) to 2016 (the Ape Rebellion). In Rise, a newspaper from the day of the Ape Rebellion appears to have the date Monday, July 18, 2016. When the Simian Flu website was launched a year prior to this film's release, it said that the outbreak took place in 2013. Adding ten years would place Dawn in 2023. This was later changed to 2011, perhaps to correlate with the release date of Rise. The Motherboard shorts Before The Dawn also use 2011 as the outbreak year. Adding ten years would place Dawn in 2021. In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Official Movie Novelization , Dreyfus looks at the photo of his family, which is mentioned as having been taken in the year 2012 in the early days of the Simian Flu. Adding ten years would place the story in 2021. The car used by Malcolm's group has a 2013 sticker on the license plate.

Promotion Edit Upon hitting the home stretch before the film is released, 20th Century Fox has been busy in promoting the film. They have released trailers, TV, spots, posters, featurettes, gifs on their Tumblr page, and small images on their Facebook and Twitter pages. Trailers They released a teaser trailer on December 18th, 2013 thus raising the hype. Then on May 8th, 2014 they released another trailer featuring more of the film. 02:34 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes San Francisco Deterioration 20th Century FOX Building a Better Ape Featurette The production team released a short documentary detailing how they improved the Ape costume mechanics for the sequel, the likes of which can be viewed below.

04:56 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Building a Better Ape Crew Interviews 04:59 Andy Serkis and Matt Reeves Interview - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) college web media 03:51 Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon Interview - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) College Web Media Notes Edit Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will be novelized in June 2014 by author Alex Irvine . It will also have an official movie prequel written by Greg Keyes . This was mistaken as Dawn's prequel film Rise. The Prequel Novel will be out on the 27th May, 2014 with the eBook edition to be released June 3rd and the film's novelization will follow in July of the same, prior to the film's release. There will also be a book released on the concept art released for both Dawn and Rise. Due to Paul Walker's death during the production of Fast and Furious 7, Dawn's release date has been pushed forward to July 11 to fill the absence release space.

James Franco's character Will Rodman will make a cameo in the film despite having died during the virus outbreak. Footage from Rise is to be used in some way as a flashback of sorts to give closure to Caesar to his adoptive father's death. Please note: James Franco had no involvement in the film and had no knowledge of the cameo so it can assumed that the cameo will be uncredited. This is the only Planet of the Apes film to be shot in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The films before Dawn were shot in 2.35:1. More height was needed for this film because of scenes with the apes on horses and the fight on the tower in the climax.

External Links A Complete History of 'Planet of the Apes' - Rolling Stone 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' and the Rest of Our 'Fierce' Summer-Film Preview Subsequent sequels dealt with the arms race (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), animal cruelty (Escape from the Planet of the Apes) and race war (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), while the movies were innovative in other ways: they advanced the art of film make-up, became one of the first film series to tell a single complete story over several installments, and (for better or worse) changed the way in which film-related products and merchandise were marketed. Above it all, however, they're great fun and, even at their weirdest, incredibly entertaining (well, maybe not Tim Burton's 2001 remake so much). The newly rebooted saga, which began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and continues this month with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, has captured the spirit and thrill of the original films.

The history of the series is a colorful one, and in honor of Dawn's arrival, we've constructed a brief timeline of the Apes saga…with some key events from the movies' alternate future thrown in as well. June 1963: Pierre Boulle's satiric novel, La Planete des singes (Monkey Planet) is published for the first time in the U.S. after coming out earlier in the year in the author's native France. Producer Arthur P. Jacobs has already purchased the film rights before the book is published. February 1964: Jacobs seemingly closes a deal for Warner Bros. Pictures to produce the movie, with Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther) directing, The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling writing the screenplay and Shirley MacLaine (!) starring as the chimpanzee scientist Zira. The deal falls apart. 1965 - 1966: Serling's script goes through several drafts and makes significant alterations to the novel as Jacobs enlists Charlton Heston to star as the astronaut Thomas (later renamed Taylor). Despite having a star, a script and concept art, Jacobs gets shown the door at every studio he brings the project to.

March 1966: Jacobs convinces 20th Century Fox chief Richard Zanuck to let him do a screen test with Heston and Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Zaius to prove that the movie can work. Although the test is a success, Zanuck still says no — until September of that year, when the grosses of another sci-fi picture, Fantastic Voyage, convince him there's an audience for these kinds of movies. February 1968: Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Heston, Roddy McDowall as Cornelius, Kim Hunter as Zira, Maurice Evans as Zaius and Linda Harrison as Nova, opens in theaters. It is a box office smash, earning $32 million (big bucks in those days), while also being acclaimed as one of the best films of the year. Late 1968: 20th Century Fox requests a sequel to Planet of the Apes. Scripts by Rod Serling and Pierre Boulle himself are submitted — and discarded.

Eventually Jacobs hires Goldfinger co-writer Paul Dehn to fashion a screenplay for what will eventually become Beneath the Planet of the Apes. February 1969: Production begins on Beneath. Halfway through, Zanuck is fired as head of Fox and, perhaps thinking he'll take the studio's new franchise down with him, suggests to director Ted Post that the movie end with Heston blowing up the world. Heston is more than happy to go along with the idea; he does not want to be dragged back for another sequel. May 1970: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, starring James Franciscus (as astronaut Brent), Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Gregory (in a role turned down by Orson Welles) and Heston is released; to everyone's surprise, it's also a huge hit. Critics are less enamored of its lunatic plot involving a war between the apes and telepathic human mutants that ends with Earth's destruction. Shortly after it opens, Paul Dehn gets a telegram that reads: "Apes exist.

Sequel required." May 1971: The third and most comedic of the original Apes movies, Escape from the Planet of the Apes has Cornelius (Roddy McDowall), Zira (Kim Hunter) and Milo (Sal Mineo) salvage Taylor's ship and blast into space just as the Earth is destroyed at the end of Beneath, with the shock wave sending them back to our time. Cheaply made (only three actors in ape make-up) and shot in L.A., Escape does well enough at the box office — although not as well as the first two. January 1972: Production begins on the fourth film in the series, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Shooting takes place in the newly constructed shopping and business complex Century City, a collection of high-rises built on the former Fox back lot that serve in the film as a city of the future. February 1972: A spaceship containing a four-person crew led by Colonel George Taylor is launched into space. Mission control quickly loses all contact with it.

March 1972: A search-and-rescue spacecraft bearing two astronauts, including John Brent, takes off in pursuit of Taylor's ship — and similarly vanishes. June 1972: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is released, directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) and starring Roddy McDowall as Caesar, the intelligent offspring of Cornelius and Zira who survived his parents' murder in Escape. Now an adult in a totalitarian North America where apes are slaves, Caesar leads his people in a revolt against their human masters. Conquest is the only movie in the series to be rated PG (the rest were all rated G!), due to the film's violent scenes of rebellion — which were influenced by footage of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. April 1973: The spaceship originally piloted by Colonel Taylor returns, crashing in the ocean off the coast of Southern California. It bears three intelligent chimpanzees — Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo. May 1973: A presidential commission, convened in secret, orders that Zira's pregnancy be terminated.

She and Cornelius do not survive — but ironically, their baby does. June 1973: Billed as "the final chapter," Battle for the Planet of the Apes arrives in theaters with Thompson again at the helm and McDowall reprising his role as Caesar. Set years after Conquest, it follows Caesar as he tries to lead a united ape and human community in the aftermath of a worldwide nuclear war. The cheapest and lowest-grossing of the films, it marks the end of the initial series. September 1974: A Planet of the Apes TV series starring — you guessed it — Roddy McDowall as a chimp named Galen and Ron Harper and James Naughton as astronauts Virdon and Burke, set 900 years before the first film, debuts on CBS-TV. It is no competition for the combined one-two punch of Sanford & Son and Chico and the Man in the same primetime slot at NBC, and lasts just 14 episodes. September 1975: Someone still thinks Apes belong on the small screen, so the animated series Return to the Planet of the Apes premieres on NBC and hangs around for 13 weeks.

Interestingly, its technologically advanced ape society is much closer to the one originally conceived all the way back in Boulle's novel. February 1983: A virus brought back from space leads to the deaths of all cats and dogs on Earth. July 1983: Distraught over the loss of their pets, humans begin adopting apes to replace them. November 1984: A critical U.S election during a time of increased international tensions leads to a complete change in the American system of government, with the United States becoming a totalitarian state (we're not sure if this is totally fictional, actually). 1984 - 1991: Apes begin taking on domestic tasks — at first simple household chores, and then more complex manual-labor duties, eventually becoming slaves to homo sapiens. Read Our 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Film Review Late 1988: The first inklings of a Planet of the Apes reboot get underway at Fox. Adam Rifkin is hired to write and direct at one point before Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh — in their pre-The Lord of the Rings days — also make a pitch to revive the franchise. Neither one gets any traction.

July 1991: The child of Cornelius and Zira, now named Caesar, arrives in an unnamed city and, through a series of unfortunate events, ends up becoming the leader of an ape revolution. January 1992: As the ape revolution spreads across the world, someone has the bright idea that nuclear weapons may stop it, so a worldwide nuclear war is launched. Caesar leads a group of humans and apes to safety in a rural area far outside the population centers. Early 1993 - February 1995: Oliver Stone comes on board as director of a new Planet of the Apes; his idea has something to do with cryogenically frozen simians and the Bible code. Next up are director Philip Noyce and screenwriter Terry Hayes, whose Return of the Apes script follows a geneticist named Will Robinson into the ancient past, where he learns an intelligent ape civilization has planted a secret virus into human DNA that will eventually wipe it out. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs on to play Robinson, but according to Hollywood legend, the project collapses when a studio exec insists on a scene of Arnold teaching the apes to play baseball.

Late 1995 - Mid-1998: The parade of directors and scripts continues as Fox keeps trying to relaunch the Apes franchise. Chris Columbus, James Cameron, Peter Jackson again, Michael Bay (ugh) and Roland Emmerich all take their turns at bat. October 1998: Roddy McDowall, the actor most associated with the franchise who appeared in all five original Apes films (albeit in a flashback in Beneath) and the live-action TV series, dies peacefully at home in Los Angeles. February 2000: Tim Burton is hired to direct the new version of Planet of the Apes. July 2001: Burton's film, starring Mark Wahlberg as astronaut Leo Davidson and Tim Roth, Helena Bonham-Carter and Paul Giamatti as apes, opens in theaters. It grosses $362 million worldwide despite a silly, somewhat dull script that includes perhaps the most nonsensical ending in the entire franchise. 2006: Inspired by an article about pet chimpanzees not acclimating well to their households, screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver begin penning an Apes origin story called Caesar.

June 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, written by Jaffa and Silver and directed by Rupert Wyatt, opens and is an immediate success. A loose remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, it chronicles the beginnings of the ape rebellion. Andy Serkis plays Caesar in a stunning motion-capture performance that elevates the form to a new level and makes everyone forget James Franco was actually the star. October 2012: Rupert Wyatt is replaced by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) as the director for the next film in the series, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. July 2014: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring Serkis as Caesar, along with Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and Toby Kebbell, arrives in theaters. Early reviews describe it as being even better than Rise. July 2016: The third entry in the new Apes series is scheduled to come out, with Reeves once again directing and Serkis playing Caesar for a third go-round. 61 Reasons to Love 2014 November 3954: Taylor's ship crash-lands into the sea.

He and his surviving crewmates are captured by gorillas. January 3955: Taylor is put on trial by the apes, but Cornelius and Zira help him escape. In the Forbidden Zone, he discovers the ruins of the Statue of Liberty and realizes he's been home the entire time. You maniacs! You blew it up! February 3955: Astronaut Brent shows up and eventually discovers that Taylor has been taken prisoner by the telepathic mutants living underground in New York City. Mortally wounded in the ensuing battle between apes and mutants, Taylor basically says "fuck it" and presses the button that blows up the world, ensuring that no more Apes movies will be made. Little did he know…. All 8 ‘The Planet of the Apes’ Movies Ranked from Worst to Best | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis All 8 ‘The Planet of the Apes’ Movies Ranked from Worst to Best Shares66 Danish Bagdadi | Sat, 12 Jul 2014-05:17pm , Mumbai , DNA Adjusted for inflation, seven of the previous ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies have earned nearly a billion dollars at the box-office.

With the latest one, ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ in theatres right now , I’ve ranked all the movies in the franchise from the worst to the best in descending order. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) The final instalment in the original bunch of the ‘Apes’ movies, was also final nail in the coffin of a series that had been ground breaking when it kicked off. Told via flashback in the early 25st century, the movie tells the story of the intelligent ape, Caesar, leading his troops in the final battle for the planet against the humans in a post-apocalyptic society. Much of the humans have been wiped out by nuclear war and those who survive are radiation scarred ones living in underground ruins. Caesar has to also deal with a gorilla General named Aldo who’s trying to stage a coup thinking his leader is too soft on the humans. Made on a pittance compared to the original, it featured laughable effects and horrible writing. While it did carry forward some of the themes introduced in earlier movies, particularly about the need for coexistence between apes and humans, the movie was just an excuse to milk the franchise for all it’s worth.

Planet of the Apes (2001) Tim Burton rebooting a sci-fi classic, featuring talking apes would have made for a mouth-watering proposition during the turn of the 21st century. The original has all the whimsical oddities and thematic elements that are evident in Burton’s earlier work. The finished product however made everyone go back and watch the original just to wash away the memory of ever having witnessed this train wreck. It adapted much of the story from the original but with a few added twists of its own to create a Hollywood spectacle including that inexplicable final twist of an ape Abraham Lincoln that made no sense whatsoever. Excellent make-up and effects coupled with a first-rate cast couldn’t hide the mind-bogging ludicrous plot and hokey tone. It even featured original ‘Apes’ thespian, Charlton Heston, in a cameo uttering an iconic line from the first movie. Tim Roth however chewed up scenery like a ravenous bear as the evil, General Thade. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) When the original did well, Hollywood did what it knows best, make a franchise out of the damn thing.

This one was obviously intended to be a cash-grab attempt to quickly capitalise on the unexpected success of the first film. Made to look like the original on an evidently smaller budget, it surrendered much of the socio-political subtext that made the first one, great. After his immensely anguish laden moment in the climax of ‘The Planet of the Apes’, Charlton Heston and his newfound girlfriend wander off into the radioactive wasteland. Unfortunately and and under hilarious circumstances he’s captured and held captive by a cult comprised of subterranean mutant humans who worship a giant nuclear bomb. Another human astronaut crash lands on the planet with his mission being to save Heston’s crew. But much like in the first movie he soon gets a lesson about his new surroundings and the dominant species on the planet. The newly introduced faction of human mutants, only serve to add fodder for the plot’s inter-species conflict to ensure action sequences in new locations towards the end of the film. Though some of the sequences might seem ambitious for that time, they have not aged well, particularly that wall of fire in the desert.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) It had its share of ridiculousness and budget cuts compared to the earlier parts but this one truly leads in from its immediate predecessor in completing the story arc of Caesar’s rise as the leader of the apes. The story feels necessary and organic rather than forced and there are enough allegories attempting to merge real human history and the mythology that the past movies had built. A virus wipes out all cats and dogs in the future, leaving humans to turn to keeping apes as pets. A young Caesar born of parents who were from the future undergoes torture at the hands of human captors when separated from his sympathetic owner. He leads the ape revolt against humans, laying the foundation of the first movie’s ape society. The movie also starred the legendary Ricardo Montalban who played Khan in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) A complete twist on the original’s plot, this one has a spaceship carrying ape astronauts that crashes into present day (1971) earth, with one of them pregnant with the baby that will grow to lead the ape revolution.

It takes the plot of the original and flips it around completely and reveals humans as being no different as the apes when encountering an equally capable species. They show the same fear, apprehension and paranoia that the apes showed to the first intelligent human they met in the original movie. Though how did the apes figure out the nuances of being an astronaut is never explained. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Tim Burton did to the apes franchise what Joel Schumacher had done to his Batman movies, made it a Hollywood pariah that no one would dare touch for another ten years. That was until director Rupert Wyatt and the writing duo of Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa came along and laid the bricks for a new series to be born from the rubble of Burton’s disaster. Rising like a phoenix, this was a magnificent reboot that salvaged the best bits from the series and coupled with the latest technology delivered a thinking man’s blockbuster. James Franco’s scientist adopts an orphaned baby chimp, who’s intelligence has been enhanced because of the drug testing his mother underwent. The ape raised with a lot of affection finds the outside world as cruel and harsh when he’s taken away from his home later in life.

Soon he finds his place amongst his kind and using his superior knowledge starts the ape revolution. Gone were the body suits, replaced by CGI motion capture and Andy Serkis as Caesar was simply astounding. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) SlashFilm editor Peter Sciretta has chimed as well, going so far to claim that "Dawn" is to "The Empire Strikes Back" as "Rise" was to "A New Hope." And that for me is the perhaps the most apt description of the film. The ambition to create a series that organically builds to a crescendo while honouring all that which came before seems to be very strong with this rebooted franchise. The movie takes place many years after ‘Rise’ with much of Earth’s human population wiped out by the simian flu. The apes led by Caesar have created their own sanctuary and society hoping to lead a peaceful life but a run in with human’s looking for a power source for their homes leads to friction.

With mistrust on both sides ever present and the need to be the dominant species of the utmost importance, it allows for a scenario of power struggle that only the players perpetrating think will lead to a better future but instead paves the way for further conflict. The effects are even better than ‘Rise’ and in addition to Any Serkis there’s Toby Kebbell’s memorable turn as the villainous Koba. The only reason it’s not number one on the list is because the original movie was such an iconic achievement. Planet of the Apes (1968) Based on the French novel by Pierre Boulle, the movie’s position in the annals of cinema and sci-fi cinema in particular is of the highest order. The immense philosophical, social, and racial subtext in the movie has been mined repeatedly for countless other films and pop-cultural references. Filled with iconic imagery and dialogues, the movie has left an impression like few other films. The final twist itself has been used in countless parodies and jokes but hits you like a ton of bricks the first time you watch it.

Primate Primer: Your Film-By-Film Guide to the 'Planet of the Apes' Movies Primate Primer: Your Film-By-Film Guide to the 'Planet of the Apes' Movies Yahoo Movies• Pin it Share Confused by all those Planet of the Apes movies and the Rise, Dawns, Battles, and Conquests that seem to keep happening during them? Before you see the new edition this weekend, read our handy primer on the eight theatrical Apes below: Planet of the Apes (1968) The first in the original five-film series delivers on the promise of its admittedly intriguing title: The crew of spaceship (led by a gruff Charlton Heston) find themselves stranded on a suspiciously Earth-like planet ruled by simians. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Nothing metaphorical about this title! Much of the action in this sequel — in which a second astronaut seeks to discover the fate of Heston’s crew — does, in fact, take place below the surface of this (spoiler alert!) future Earth, specifically, among the ruins of a New York City subway station.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) Following the climactic nuclear destruction of the future Earth in Beneath, a trio of apes manage to survive by piloting Heston’s spaceship. They make good on their titular escape, but a time-warp sends them back to Earth of 1973. Violence and philosophical musings ensue. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) The Earth of 1991 is no place to live: A global pandemic has wiped out every…cat and dog. Luckily, there is a population of easily trained apes just waiting to be domesticated — and, ultimately, enslaved. An intelligent chimp named Caesar (son of Cornelius and Zira of the previous films) leads a successful revolt and begins a new Planet of the Apes. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) The final entry in the original Apes series takes place a dozen or so years after the events of Conquest. Earth is a post-nuclear wasteland — will we ever learn? — and Caesar seeks a harmonious relationship between apes and surviving humans.

But war does come, to the relief of moviegoers who did not pay to see Peace Talks on the Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes (2001) Tim Burton’s pointless reworking of the 1968 original, with Mark Wahlberg in the Heston role, represents a tragic waste of both its $100 million budget and of a fine cast that includes Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Paul Giamatti. The retooled ending features a stunned Wahlberg in front of Lincoln Memorial that features a beloved Honest Ape. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) The widely praised first film in a series reboot lifts key elements from 1972’s Conquest — most notably in giving the name Caesar to the super-intelligent chimp who will eventually lead the simian revolution — and makes bad guys out of corporate America. As Caesar, Andy Serkis is terrific in a performance that blends good old-fashioned close-up acting with state-of-the-art visual effects.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) Ten years after the violent Golden Gate Bridge confrontation of Rise, a mutant virus has led to the collapse of human civilization. (Damn you all to hell, Big Pharma!) The apes, during this time, have flourished and live not unlike native Americans of the past. Naturally, the two species meet — with predictable results. The film’s ends with Caesar on the literal brink (or should we say dawn?) of a new day poised for both the upcoming war and inevitable sequel. Want to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes? Visit our Showtimes page to get tickets . Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox, Jayme Perry

Question: On what planet did the movie "Planet of the Apes" take place?
Answer: Earth