Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in French as La Planète des Singes and also translated as Monkey Planet.
It has been made into a movie twice:
The success of the original Planet of the Apes (1968) movie led to several sequels, none as critically acclaimed as the original:
There was also a television series and several comic books based on the movies.
Background
Planet of the Apes is an example of social commentary through dystopia.
It is currently the most famous example of a genre that had an unexpected origin. When the historian Thomas Macaulay reviewed Otto von Ranke?s The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes, he imagined in the far future the figure of a cultivated Maori New Zealander arriving to survey a future London in ruins, like the 18th century excursions of Wood and Dawkins, of Stuart and Revett at Baalbek or Palmyra.
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