Tag: Planet of the Apes
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The Twilight Zone Episode That Gave Planet Of The Apes Its Famous Twist Ending
When I was a kid, no movie ending scared me more than “Planet of the Apes.” Granted, I was exposed to Tim Burton’s poorly received update on the film before I ever saw the stunning ending of Franklin J. Schaffner’s original, but the effect was the same both times: total shock, awe, and primal fear…
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‘Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling Is Connected to ‘Planet of the Apes’
Everyone thinks of Rod Serling as the voice (and brain) behind The Twilight Zone, but he actually has a way wider range of credits to his name than people realize. Aside from Night Gallery, he was also one of the main minds behind the original Planet of the Apes movie. Serling wrote the screenplay for…
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Planet Of The Apes’ Groundbreaking Makeup Was A Literal Nightmare For One Of Its Stars
The nearly 60-year long “Planet of the Apes” film series runs the gamut in terms of quality. You have a masterpiece like the original 1968 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, an utter catastrophe in the 2001 remake by Tim Burton, and everything in between. That being said, there’s one thing that basically every film…
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Charlton Heston’s Most Underrated Performance Is in This Shakespeare Movie
Charlton Heston is best known for uttering classic lines like “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” from 1968’s Planet of the Apes, and “It’s people! They’re making our food out of people!” from 1973’s Soylent Green. He’s also one of the most recognizable actors from the Biblical film era, parting the…
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New on Hulu in July 2023
Good news everyone; Futurama is returning with all new episodes on Hulu starting this July. That won’t be all that’s coming to service either as another beloved series will be making a comeback with Timothy Olyphant reprising his role as Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval. The hit vampire comedy series What We Do in…
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Owen Teague Prepared for New ‘Planet of the Apes’ With Andy Serkis’ Help
Owen Teague is set to helm his first studio film with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the highly anticipated fourth installment of the Planet of the Apes reboot series. Ahead of the film’s release in 2024, Teague spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the motion capture process on the project, as well as…
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Why We Never Got Peter Jackson‘s ‘Planet of the Apes’
From fantasy to horror, the many works of Peter Jackson have made him one of the defining faces in the last 30 years of genre movies, so it’s a shame that we never got his take on Planet of the Apes! It was the ’90s, and after having made a few gonzo horror movies and…
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‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’: Everything We Know So Far
The 1968 film adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s 1963 book La Planète des singes (also known as Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet) was a critical and economic triumph, and it sparked a wave of follow-ups, spinoffs, and derivative works that tackled Cold War, racial, and animal rights themes.After six films in the Planet of…
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The First Draft For The Simpsons’ A Fish Called Selma Didn’t Even Feature The Planet Of The Apes Musical
“A Fish Called Selma” is a fun season 7 episode of “The Simpsons,” notable for being Troy McClure’s (Phil Hartman) most prominent episode in the show, and for being one of the few episodes in the series where the writers seemed to want us to care about Selma, Marge’s grouchy, unpleasant sister. Much like with…