Based on La Planète Des Singes, a French novel by Pierre Boulle, the 1968 movie - a mix of Flash Gordon fantasy-action and comic-book Swiftian satire - spun off sequels (little-known trivia fact: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes was a pre-production title for the last of the original series, Battle For The Planet Of The Apes), TV series, comics, lunch-boxes, masks, action figures etc. The game-changing success of Star Wars tends to wipe away the memory of earlier science-fiction franchises, but before George Lucas signed with 20th Century Fox, the studio’s premier property was Planet Of The Apes.
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