Vintage Poster
The Planet of the Apes
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How would you like to discover the film that started the franchise thanks to this sublime Planet of the Apes Film Poster dating from 1968, ideal for your decor?
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- Maximum color vibrancy, without reflections .
- Recycled paper, guaranteeing respect for the environment.
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Description of this Planet of the Apes Movie Poster
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and loosely based on the 1963 French novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Written by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, it stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison. In the film, a crew of astronauts crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet seems desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and language. Apes have taken the role of the dominant species and humans are mute creatures wearing animal skins.
The outline of Planet of the Apes came from a screenplay, originally written by Serling, which underwent numerous rewrites before filming began. Directors J. Lee Thompson and Blake Edwards were approached, but the film's producer, Arthur P. Jacobs, on the recommendation of Charlton Heston, chose Franklin J. Schaffner to direct the film. Schaffner's changes included a less advanced—and therefore less costly to depict—ape society than that of the original novel. Filming took place between May 21 and August 10, 1967, in California, Utah, and Arizona, with desert sequences filmed in and around Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The final "closed" cost of the film was $5.8 million.
The film was released in the United States on February 8, 1968 and was a commercial success, grossing $32.6 million lifetime. The film was revolutionized by the prosthetic makeup techniques of artist John Chambers and was well received by critics and audiences, launching a film franchise, including four sequels, as well as a short-lived television show, a animated series, comics and various derivative products. In particular, Roddy McDowall has had a long relationship with the Apes series, appearing in four of the original five films (absent, from the second film in the series, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which he was replaced by David Watson in the role of Cornelius), and also in the television series.
The original series was followed by Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake in 2001 and the reboot series began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes in 2011. In 2001, Planet of the Apes was selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry due to its "cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance."
