![]() ![]() Zaius, who dynamites the cave to destroy all evidence of human civilization and plans to try Cornelius and Zia for heresy. Taylor and Nova ride off into the forbidden zone to seek a new life, only to be warned by Zaius that he will not like what he finds. Such a revelation is apostasy, as apes believe they were first among all life, created in the image of God. They discover artifacts of a heart valve, glasses, and a doll, which speaks, which affirm a prior advanced civilization of speaking humans, antecedent to the current ape culture. Taylor, Nova, Zira, Lucius and Cornelius escape and manage to take Dr. Zaius who resolves to murder Talyor, who he believes is a mortal threat to Ape civilization. This revelation arouses a fierce animus from Dr. All goes to hell when Taylor’s throat heals and he speaks – in this world humans cannot speak. Zira and her fiancé Cornelius, an archeologist, bond with Taylor during his recovery. We bear witness to a rigid caste society with gorillas as the military, police, hunters and workers, orangutans as administrators, politicians, lawyers and priests, and chimpanzees as intellectuals, physicians and scientists. In an Ape City animal psychologist Zira, and surgeon Galen treat him medically. Dodge is shot dead, Landon wounded, and Taylor shot in the throat. Soon they are shocked to see armed talking apes on horseback herding and capturing other humans. As they bathe in a pool their clothes and provisions are stolen. After a torturous journey they come upon a verdant zone. The desert world seems desolate and soil samples indicate that it is incapable of supporting life. Taylor, and crewmates Lando and Dodge barely escape in a raft as the ship sinks in an inland lake. The story, which is set in the year 3,978 CE, reveals a spacecraft with its crew in suspended animation unexpectedly crashing on a planet believed to be in the constellation Orion. ![]() Zaius, James Daly as Honorius, Lou Wagner as Lucius, and Linda Harrison as Nova. A fine cast was assembled, which included Roddy McDowell as Cornelius, Kim Hunter as Zira, Maurice Evans as Dr. Jacobs had always seen Charlton Heston playing the lead role of John Taylor and on his request, Franklin Schaffner was hired to direct. Fox Studios finally gave the green light to film when make-up designer John Chambers developed prosthetics flexible enough for the actors to express facial emotions. The technical challenges of the required prosthetic make-up delayed the film for quite some time. After securing the film rights Rod Serling and Michael Wilson were tasked with writing the screenplay. The vehicle for the genre resurrection would be Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel La Planète des Singes (Planet of the Apes). Jacobs sold 20th Century Fox on a bold new effort to reinvigorate the science fiction genre, which had languished since the start of the decade. ![]()
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