Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes | |
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Created by | Pierre Boulle |
Original work | La Planète des singes (1963) |
Owner | 20th Century Studios |
Years | 1968–present |
Print publications | |
Book(s) | List of books |
Novel(s) | La Planète des singes (1963) |
Comics | List of comics |
Films and television | |
Film(s) | Original series
Remake
Reboot series
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Television series | Planet of the Apes (1974) |
Animated series | Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975–1976) |
Games | |
Video game(s) |
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Miscellaneous | |
Character(s) | List of characters |
Planet of the Apes is an American
Four sequels followed the original film from 1970 to 1973: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. They did not approach the critical acclaim of the original, but were commercially successful, spawning a live-action television series in 1974 and an animated series in 1975. Plans for a film remake stalled in "development hell" for over 10 years before Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes was released in 2001. A reboot film series commenced in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and War for the Planet of the Apes in 2017. In 2019, Disney acquired the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox including 20th Century Fox. That year, Disney announced further sequels to the 2011 reboot series are in production, with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes officially announced for a 2024 release date. The films have grossed a total of over US$2 billion worldwide, against a combined budget of $567.5 million. Franchise tie-ins include books, comics, video games and toys.
Planet of the Apes has received particular attention among film critics for its treatment of racial issues. Cinema and cultural analysts have also explored its Cold War and animal rights themes. The series has influenced subsequent films, media, and art, as well as popular culture and political discourse.
La Planète des singes
The series began with French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes. Boulle wrote the novel in six months after the "humanlike expressions" of gorillas at the zoo inspired him to contemplate the relationship between man and ape. La Planète des singes was heavily influenced by 18th- and 19th-century fantastical travel narratives, especially Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels. It is one of several of Boulle's works to use science fiction tropes and plot devices to comment on the failings of human nature and mankind's overreliance on technology, though Boulle rejected the science fiction label, instead terming his genre "social fantasy".[1]
The novel is a satire that follows French journalist Ulysse Mérou, who participates in a voyage to a distant planet where speechless, animalistic humans are hunted and enslaved by an advanced society of apes. The ape species are sorted into classes: the gorillas are police officers, the chimpanzees are scientists, and the orangutans are politicians. Eventually, Mérou discovers that humans once dominated the planet until their complacency allowed the more industrious apes to overthrow them. The story's central message is that human intelligence is not a fixed quality and could atrophy if taken for granted.[1][2] Boulle considered the novel one of his minor works, though it proved to be a bestseller. British author Xan Fielding translated it into English; it was published in the United Kingdom as Monkey Planet and in the United States as Planet of the Apes.[3]
Original film series
Boulle's literary agent, Allain Bernheim, brought the novel to the attention of American film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, who had come to Paris looking for properties to adapt with his new company, APJAC Productions. To explain his interests, Jacobs would tell agents, "I wish King Kong hadn't been made so I could make it." Bernheim initially approached him about a Françoise Sagan novel, which Jacobs turned down. Remembering Jacobs' earlier comment about King Kong, Bernheim mentioned La Planète des singes, not expecting he would be interested. However, the story intrigued Jacobs, who bought the film rights immediately.[4]
Planet of the Apes (1968)
After optioning the novel's film rights, Jacobs spent over three years trying to persuade filmmakers to take on the project. He engaged a succession of artists to create test sketches and hired veteran television writer
Fox insisted on changes to reduce the budget to a more manageable $5.81 million.[8] The producers hired veteran writer Michael Wilson, who had previously adapted Boulle's novel The Bridge over the River Kwai, to rewrite Serling's script.[9][10] To save on special effects costs, Wilson's script described an ape society more primitive than that which appeared in the novel.[10][11] The new version changed much of the plot and dialogue but retained the Cold War themes and Serling's ending.[11][12] John Chambers created the makeup effects.[13]
Heston played 20th-century American astronaut
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Planning for the sequel, eventually titled
The story follows Franciscus's character, an astronaut who, while searching for Taylor, inadvertently follows him into the future. After encountering the apes from the first film, Brent finds Taylor imprisoned by a colony of subterranean human mutants who worship an ancient nuclear bomb. Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans and Linda Harrison returned as Zira, Zaius and Nova.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Following the financial success of Beneath, Arthur P. Jacobs recruited Paul Dehn to write a new script with a brief telegram: "Apes exist, sequel required." Dehn immediately started work on what became Escape from the Planet of the Apes. The producers hired a new director, Don Taylor.[31] Fox gave the production a greatly diminished budget of $2.5 million, which required a tight production schedule.[32]
To work around the budget, as well as Beneath's seemingly definitive ending, the film took the series in a new direction by transporting Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (Roddy McDowall, returning to the role after being absent from Beneath) back in time to the contemporary United States, reducing the need for expensive sets and ape makeup effects.
Compared to its predecessors, Escape dwelt more heavily on themes of racial conflict, which became a primary focus through the rest of the series.[35] The film opened on May 21, 1971, less than a year after Beneath. It was well-received by critics.[36] From this point critics began seeing the films less as independent units and more as installments in a greater work; Cinefantastique editor Frederick S. Clarke wrote that the burgeoning series had "the promise of being the first epic of filmed science fiction."[37] It also performed well at the box office, though not as strongly as its predecessors. Fox ordered a third sequel.[38]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Based on the strong positive response to Escape, Fox ordered
Following Escape, Conquest is set in a near future where humans have turned apes into slaves; Caesar rises from bondage to lead an ape rebellion. The film opened on June 30, 1972.[42] Reviews were mixed, but the ending left the series open to another sequel and Conquest was successful enough at the box office that Fox commissioned another film.[43]
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Fox approved Battle for the Planet of the Apes with a $1.2 million budget, the lowest of the series.[44] The filmmakers went into the project knowing that it would be the end of the series.[45] J. Lee Thompson returned as director. Series writer Paul Dehn submitted a treatment, but illness forced him to leave the film before completing the script. The producers subsequently hired John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington to write the screenplay.[46][47] Battle continued Conquest's focus on racial conflict and domination but, likely based in part on the studio's wishes, the Corringtons discarded Dehn's pessimistic treatment in favor of a story with a more hopeful, though ambiguous, resolution.[48]
Battle follows Caesar as he leads the apes and their human subjects after a devastating war that destroyed much of the planet. He contends with both an attack by radiation-scarred human mutants and a coup attempt as he attempts to build a better society for both apes and humans. McDowall returned as Caesar and Severn Darden returned as Kolp.
Critics have offered various interpretations of the film's message and its significance for the series. Particular attention has been paid to the ambiguous imagery in the ending: set over 700 years after the main events, the last scene depicts a statue of Caesar shedding a single tear as the Lawgiver recounts Caesar's story to an integrated audience of ape and human children. By one interpretation, the statue cries tears of joy because the species have broken the cycle of oppression, giving the series an optimistic finale. By another, the statue weeps because racial strife still exists, implying the dystopian future of Planet and Beneath is unavoidable.[51]
Television series
Planet of the Apes TV series
As well as their profitable returns at the box office, the films earned very high ratings on television after their theatrical runs. To capitalize on this success, Arthur P. Jacobs conceived of an hour-long live-action television series to follow the films. He first had the idea in 1971 during the production of Conquest, which he then anticipated would be the final film, but he shelved the project once Fox ordered a fifth installment. Jacobs died on June 27, 1973, bringing an end to the APJAC Productions era of the Planet of the Apes franchise. Former Fox executive Stan Hough took over as producer for the television project, titled Planet of the Apes. CBS picked up the series for its 1974 autumn lineup.[52]
In 1981, Fox reedited 10 of the episodes into five television films. Each film combined two episodes and (in some markets) added new introductory and concluding segments starring McDowall as an aged Galen. The films were given what scholar Eric Greene calls "the most outlandish titles of the Apes corpus": Back to the Planet of the Apes; Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes; Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes; Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes; and Farewell to the Planet of the Apes.[57]
Greene finds the show's position in the Apes timeline significant: set in 3085, it occurs about 900 years before Taylor's crash in the original film and 400 years after the Lawgiver's sermon in Battle. By depicting a future where apes dominate humans, it implies the Lawgiver's message of equality between man and ape has failed, giving weight to the more pessimistic interpretation of Battle's ending.[58] Greene argues that the show emphasized the theme of racial conflict less than the films had, though the episodes "The Trap" and "The Liberator" made it a central focus.[59]
Return to the Planet of the Apes animated series
In 1975, after the failure of the live-action television series,
The plot concerns three American astronauts, Bill Hudson (Tom Williams), Jeff Allen (Austin Stoker, who played MacDonald in Battle) and Judy Franklin (Claudette Nevins), who inadvertently journey to Earth's far future. They find the world populated by three groups: mute humans who inhabit desert caves, subterranean human "Underdwellers" fashioned after the mutants of Beneath and civilized apes who subjugate the humans. Through the show, the astronauts become increasingly involved in the planet's affairs and in defending the humans against an ape invasion. The cast featured characters based on those from the previous films and TV series, including Nova (Nevins again), General Urko (Henry Cordin), Zira (Philippa Harris), Cornelius (Edwin Mills) and Dr. Zaius (Richard Blackburn).[62] NBC broadcast 13 episodes between September 6 and November 29, 1975. The show did not achieve particularly strong ratings. The network considered producing a second three-episode season to complete the storyline, but this never materialized.[63]
Remake film
Planned relaunch and development hell
Fox initiated plans to relaunch the Planet of the Apes series in the 1980s, but the project fell into a drawn-out and fruitless development phase—"development hell"—for over 10 years, one of the most protracted development periods in film history. It began in 1988, when Fox announced that Adam Rifkin, then a 21-year-old independent film director, would develop a new Apes movie. At a Fox executive's invitation, Rifkin pitched a concept for Return to the Planet of the Apes, an alternative sequel to Planet that ignored the other four films. In Rifkin's initial concept, Taylor's descendant Duke launches a Spartacus-like uprising against Roman-inspired ape oppressors led by General Izan. Days before the project was scheduled to enter pre-production, Fox brought in new studio executives, who sent it back to development.[64] They commissioned Rifkin to write several redrafts, but found them unsatisfactory and ultimately scrapped the project.[65]
After several years in limbo, Fox returned to the Apes concept, this time with Oliver Stone as a producer. Stone brought in Terry Hayes as screenwriter and they developed a script titled Return of the Apes.[66] In their script, humanity is threatened by an ailment encoded in their DNA, so two scientists go back in time thousands of years to stop it at its origin. They discover the disease was engineered by advanced apes to ensure humanity's eventual destruction.[67] Arnold Schwarzenegger committed to star as scientist Will Robinson and Phillip Noyce agreed to direct. The draft impressed Fox president Peter Chernin, but other executives were ambivalent about the action script, believing that it should be lighter. At one point, executive Dylan Sellers insisted the script include a comic scene involving apes playing baseball as his "stamp" on the film and fired Hayes when he left it out. This move caused Noyce to quit as well and subsequently, almost everyone involved in the project left for one reason or another.[66]
After the collapse of the Stone-Hayes project, Fox brought on Chris Columbus to develop a new Apes concept. Columbus hired Sam Hamm to write a screenplay taking elements from Boulle's novel and various unused treatments. In Hamm's script, an ape astronaut from a distant planet unleashes a devastating virus on Earth. Scientists go to the astronaut's planet, where apes hunt humans; they locate a cure but return to find Earth overrun by simians. Schwarzenegger remained attached, but Fox found the script underwhelming. Columbus left the project in 1995 after his mother's death and James Cameron stepped in to produce. Cameron intended to go in a "very different direction" with the script, but following the critical and financial success of his film Titanic, he dropped out of the project. Fox approached a series of directors to take over, without success.[68]
Planet of the Apes (2001)
In 1999, Fox hired
The film stars Mark Wahlberg as astronaut Leo Davidson, who accidentally travels through a wormhole to a distant planet where talking apes enslave humans. He leads a human revolt and upends ape civilization by discovering that the apes evolved from the normal Earth primates who had accompanied his mission and had arrived on the planet years before. Helena Bonham Carter played chimpanzee Ari, while Tim Roth played the human-hating chimpanzee General Thade. The film received mixed reviews; most critics believed it failed to compare to the original. Much of the negative commentary focused on the confusing plot and twist ending, though many reviewers praised the special effects.[70][71] The film succeeded at the box office, taking in $362 million worldwide.[72] Fox had initially hoped for a sequel, but the difficult production left Burton unenthusiastic about participating, and the film failed to generate enough interest for the studio to pursue a follow-up.[69]
Reboot film series
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
In 2005, screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver developed a concept for a new Planet of the Apes film, eventually titled Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Inspired by news articles on apes raised as humans and advances in genetics, Jaffa conceived an idea for a film about a genetically enhanced chimpanzee raised in a human household. He and Silver pitched the concept to Fox as a way to reboot the Apes franchise by reinventing the story of the chimpanzee Caesar, the lead character of Conquest and Battle. Fox was impressed and bought the pitch, but development struggled for five years as the production cycled through scripts, writers, directors and producers. In 2010, producers Chernin and Dylan Clark of Chernin Entertainment stepped in to move the film forward, retaining Jaffa and Silver as writers.[73][74]
In the final script, Caesar receives enhanced cognition from a viral drug created by Will Rodman, who raises him. After being imprisoned in a primate sanctuary, Caesar uses his ingenuity to launch an uprising.[75] The screenplay contains complex connections to other entries in the series, causing some confusion as to its exact relation to them. Oliver Lindler writes that while the film's premise might identify it as a remake of Conquest, official dispatches and professional reviewers typically avoided the term, instead calling the film a prequel or "origin story" to the original Planet of the Apes film and/or a reboot of the series; fans and bloggers were more apt to refer to it as a "remake".[76][77][78] The completed script attracted director Rupert Wyatt. To portray ape characters realistically, the production avoided practical effects in favor of motion-capture acting, partnering with New Zealand visual effects company Weta Digital. Wyatt cast James Franco as Will Rodman, while veteran performance-capture actor Andy Serkis signed on to star as Caesar.[79]
Rise debuted on August 5, 2011. Critics reviewed it positively, especially praising the visual effects and Serkis's performance.[80] It was a major box office hit, taking in $482 million globally, more than five times its $93 million budget.[81] Weta's special effects earned the film two Visual Effects Society Awards and an Oscar nomination at the 84th Academy Awards, among other accolades. The strength of Serkis's performance also inspired Fox to promote him for Oscar consideration; he was not nominated by Academy voters.[82] Following the movie's success, Fox immediately planned for a sequel.[83]
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Producers Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark started planning the film eventually titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes just after Rise's release in 2011. Fox allocated a budget of $40 million, although the ultimate budget increased to $170 million.[84][85][86] Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver returned to pen the script and produce and the studio quickly signed Andy Serkis to reprise his role as Caesar. Director Rupert Wyatt withdrew from the project due to production and scheduling issues and was replaced by Matt Reeves.[84][87]
Set 10 years after Rise, the film establishes that the "simian flu", a side effect of the drug that enhanced the apes' intelligence, has killed most humans. Caesar struggles to maintain peace as his ape community is drawn into violent clashes with nearby human survivors. Weta Digital again provided special effects work, which combined practical sets, digitally manipulated backgrounds and performance capture ape characters.[88] The lead human characters were played by Jason Clarke, as Malcolm; Keri Russell, as Ellie; and Gary Oldman, as Dreyfus.[89] Released on July 11, 2014, the film was very well received by critics, who found it a strong follow-up to Rise and lauded the combination of an engaging script with impressive special effects.[90][91] It also performed very strongly at the box office, taking in $711 million in worldwide grosses.[85] Its special effects received several honors, including three Visual Effects Society Awards and an Oscar nomination at the 87th Academy Awards.[92]
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Fox was confident enough in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes that the studio started planning for the next installment months before the film debuted. After Fox and Chernin Entertainment screened Matt Reeves' cut of Dawn, he was contracted to return as director; he also wrote the script with Mark Bomback. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver again served as producers.[93][94] Given a $150 million budget, War for the Planet of the Apes was released on July 14, 2017.[95][96]
The film depicts the apes and humans in armed conflict and follows Caesar and his followers as they track down the mysterious Colonel, a human paramilitary leader, and search for a new home. Serkis returned as Caesar, Woody Harrelson played the villainous Colonel and Steve Zahn played Bad Ape.[97][98] It earned widespread critical acclaim; reviewers praised the effects and narrative and found the film a fitting conclusion to Caesar's story.[99][100] It earned $491 million at the worldwide box office.[96]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
In October 2016, it was reported that a fourth film in the new series was being discussed.[101][102] Shortly before the release of War in July 2017, Reeves said that he expressed interest in making more Apes films and that Steve Zahn, who played Bad Ape in the film, had set up a story for further sequels.[103][104][105] Writer Mark Bomback hinted that further films would be possible.[106] In April 2019, following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, Disney announced that future Planet of the Apes films are in development.[107][108] In August 2019, Disney stated that any future installments would take place in the universe first established in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.[109] In February 2020, Wes Ball was announced as director of the next film, with Joe Hartwick Jr. and David Starke serving as producers. Ball explained that the story will take place after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes, and continue to follow "Caesar's legacy".[110][111] In May 2020, it was announced that Josh Friedman will serve as screenwriter alongside Ball, while Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver will return to the franchise as producers.[112] In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell stated that production would start between the late summer or early fall of 2022.[113] In August 2022, Owen Teague was announced to have been cast in a lead role, the ape Cornelius.[114] In September 2022, Freya Allan and Peter Macon were announced to have been cast and the title was revealed to be Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.[115][116][117] Production for the film began in October 2022 in Sydney, New South Wales at Disney Studios Australia.[118]
Other media and merchandise
Books
Pierre Boulle's novel La Planète des singes was translated and reprinted several times after its original publication in 1963.
Comics
Planet of the Apes–based comics have been published regularly since 1968. Among the most notable is
In 1990, during a resurgence of interest in the franchise,
Gold Key Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Boom! Studios have also produced Planet of the Apes comic books. The Boom! releases include crossovers with other properties: 2014's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive[124] and 2017's King Kong story Kong on the Planet of the Apes.[125] In 2018, Boom! released a graphic novel, Planet of the Apes: Visionaries, adapted by Dana Gould and Chad Lewis from the original 1968 film's unused screenplay by Rod Serling.[126]
Toys and merchandise
The series, and particularly the live-action Apes television show and the Return to the Planet of the Apes cartoon, generated numerous toy and merchandising tie-ins. During the 1970s, Fox licensed around 60 companies to produce about 300 different Apes products, including action figures and playsets,
Video games
In 1983, 20th Century Fox Videogames developed a Planet of the Apes game for the Atari 2600, which was to be the first computer game based on the series. The game was still in the prototype phase when Fox shuttered its game division during the video game crash of 1983 and it never saw release. It was assumed lost until 2002, when collectors identified a prototype, found earlier in a case labeled Alligator People, as the missing Apes game.[130][131] Independent designers Retrodesign completed and released the game as Revenge of the Apes in 2003.[131] In the game, the player controls Taylor as he fights apes across several levels inspired by the film to reach the Statue of Liberty.[130]
A video game based on the series did not appear until 2001.
In 2014, Fox partnered with
Themes and analysis
Racial issues
Critics consider race to be the Planet of the Apes series' primary theme.[6] Eric Greene, author of a book on the role of race in the original films and spinoff material, writes that "when seen as one epic work, the Apes saga emerges as a liberal allegory of racial conflict."[37] In Greene's interpretation, the franchise's plot arc is rooted in the central conflict in which humans and apes alternately subjugate one another in a destructive cycle.[147] Difference between human and ape manifests primarily in physical appearance, and dominance derives from social power rather than innate superiority. Each film shifts the power balance so that the audience identifies sometimes with the humans and at other times with the apes.[148] According to Greene, this arc's central message is that unresolved racial discord inevitably leads to cataclysm.[147] Other critics have adopted or echoed Greene's interpretation.[149][150] Producers Abrahams and Jacobs did not consciously intend the first film's racial undertones and did not appreciate them until Sammy Davis Jr. pointed them out in 1968.[151][152][153] Subsequently, the filmmakers incorporated the theme more overtly in later installments; as a result, race moves from being a secondary motif in the first two films to becoming the major concern of the last three.[154]
Several critics have written that the reboot films downplay this theme from the original series, removing the racial subtext of conflict between humans and apes. These critics generally argue that this is to the films' detriment, writing that it softens the series' edge,[155] leaves it thematically shallow,[156] and marginalizes non-white characters;[157] several critics have written that the films appear to invoke a "post-racial America", rather than exploring issues of race.[155][156][157] Others write that the films incorporate racial themes in subtler ways, but that their presentation oversimplifies a complex message to the point of reinforcing racial norms rather than challenging them.[157][158]
Cold War and nuclear apocalypse
The Cold War and the threat of
Animal rights
Questions of animal rights also figure heavily in the series; Greene considers this related to the racial themes.[163] The first film portrays Taylor treated cruelly by apes who consider him an animal; in later films, humans abuse apes for the same reason.[164] The idea of primate rights is much more dominant in the reboot films, which directly invoke the question of great ape personhood in portraying Caesar and his followers struggling for their rights in a society that does not consider them legal persons.[165]
Cultural impact and legacy
Planet of the Apes received popular and critical attention well after production ended on the original films and television series.
Planet of the Apes had a wide impact on subsequent popular media. In terms of production, the series' success with sequelization, spinoffs and merchandising established a new model of
Interest in the series resurged in the 1990s, as plans for a new film and other media circulated. Greene attributes this renewed interest to a combination of "pop culture nostalgia and baby boomer economics", as well as a "political ferment" rising at the time that hearkened back to the period when the films were first released.[171] Inspired particularly by the publication of the Malibu Comics series, during this period fans founded new clubs, websites, and fanzines active in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries.[172] Companies began producing new branded merchandise, including clothing, toys, and costumes.[173]
Especially after the 1990s, artists in diverse media referenced, incorporated, or were otherwise influenced by the series. Planet of the Apes turned up in songs by various musicians, allusions in films, comedy bits by
The series' impact has extended to the political sphere, and groups of various leanings have employed its themes and imagery in their discourse.
List of films
Number | Title | Release date | Director | Continuity |
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1 | Planet of the Apes | April 3, 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Original series |
2 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | May 27, 1970 | Ted Post | |
3 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | May 21, 1971 | Don Taylor | |
4 | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | June 29, 1972 | J. Lee Thompson | |
5 | Battle for the Planet of the Apes | June 15, 1973 | ||
6 | Planet of the Apes | July 27, 2001 | Tim Burton | Remake |
7 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | August 5, 2011 | Rupert Wyatt | Reboot series |
8 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | July 11, 2014 | Matt Reeves | |
9 | War for the Planet of the Apes | July 14, 2017 | ||
10 | Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | May 10, 2024 | Wes Ball |
Reception
Box office performance
Film | Release date | Box office gross | Box office ranking | Budget | Ref(s) | |||
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North America | Other territories |
Worldwide | All time North America |
All time worldwide | ||||
Planet of the Apes | February 8, 1968 | $32,589,624 | $9,864 | $32,599,488 | #2,328 | — | $5.8 million | [181] |
Beneath the Planet of the Apes | May 27, 1970 | $18,999,718 | — | $18,999,718 | #3,301 | — | $3.4 million | [26][182] |
Escape from the Planet of the Apes | May 21, 1971 | $12,348,905 | — | $12,348,905 | #4,089 | — | $2.5 million | [32][183] |
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | June 14, 1972 | $9,043,472 | — | $9,043,472 | #4,555 | — | $1.7 million | [184] |
Battle for the Planet of the Apes | May 23, 1973 | $8,844,595 | — | $8,844,595 | #4,581 | — | $1.2 million | [44][185] |
Planet of the Apes | July 27, 2001 | $180,011,740 | $182,200,000 | $362,211,740 | #215 | #282 | $100 million | [72] |
Rise of the Planet of the Apes | August 5, 2011 | $176,760,185 | $305,040,688 | $481,800,873 | #235 | #184 | $93 million | [81] |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | July 11, 2014 | $208,545,589 | $502,098,977 | $710,644,566 | #167 | #90 | $170 million | [85][186] |
War for the Planet of the Apes | July 14, 2017 | $146,880,162 | $343,839,601 | $490,719,763 | #343 | #185 | $150 million | [96] |
Total | $794,023,990 | $1,333,132,032 | $2,127,203,256 | $567.5 million | [187] |
Critical and public response
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
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Planet of the Apes | 86% (59 reviews)[188] | 79 (14 reviews)[189] | — |
Beneath the Planet of the Apes | 37% (30 reviews)[190] | 46 (9 reviews)[191] | — |
Escape from the Planet of the Apes | 77% (30 reviews)[192] | 69 (9 reviews)[193] | — |
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | 50% (22 reviews)[194] | 49 (6 reviews)[195] | — |
Battle for the Planet of the Apes | 36% (28 reviews)[196] | 40 (5 reviews)[197] | — |
Planet of the Apes | 44% (160 reviews)[70] | 50 (34 reviews)[71] | B−[198] |
Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 82% (272 reviews)[199] | 68 (39 reviews)[200] | A−[201] |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 91% (316 reviews)[90] | 79 (48 reviews)[91] | A−[201] |
War for the Planet of the Apes | 94% (363 reviews)[99] | 82 (50 reviews)[100] | A−[201] |
Accolades
Academy Awards
Award | Planet of the Apes (1968) |
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) |
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) |
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Costume Design | Nominated | |||
Original Score | Nominated | |||
Visual Effects | Nominated | Nominated | Nominated |
Cast and crew
Recurring cast and characters
This section includes characters who have appeared in recurring roles in the series.
- An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
- A indicates an appearance through archival footage or audio.
- C indicates a cameo role.
- S indicates an appearance through use of special effects.
- U indicates an uncredited appearance.
- V indicates a voice-only role.
Crew
References
- ^ a b Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, pp. 4–6.
- ^ Becker 1993, pp. 122–124.
- ^ Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, p. 4.
- ^ Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, pp. 2, 9–10.
- ^ a b Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, pp. 2–3.
- ^ a b Greene 1998, p. 2.
- ^ a b Greene 1998, pp. 25–28.
- ^ Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, p. 35.
- ^ Greene 1998, p. 28.
- ^ a b Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, p. 33.
- ^ a b Webb 1998.
- ^ Greene 1998, pp. 27–28.
- ^ a b Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, pp. 29, 42–44.
- ^ Greene 1998, p. 215.
- ^ Greene 1998, pp. 52, 53 and note.
- ^ Greene 1998, pp. 2–3, 57 and note.
- ^ Russo, Landsman, and Gross 2001, p. 138.
- ^ a b c Greene 1998, p. 164.
- ^ Greene 1998, pp. 2–3, 57.
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