Ape Week Ends: Disney’s Planet of the Apes (202?)
It all began with the Pierre Boulle’s 1963 French novel La Planète des singes being acquired by Arthur P. Jacobs, a press agent turned film producer, for his APJAC Productions. Upon the success of his film adaptation of the novel as 1968’s Planet of the Apes, a quick succession of four sequels followed the original […]
Ape Week: Saru no Gundan (1974): Japan’s “Planet of the Apes”
There’s nothing in the unhinged plotting of the POTA rip offs reviewed during Ape Week that compares to the 16mm-shot, LSD-induced insanity of this 1974 Japanese TV series, Saru no Gundan (Army of the Apes), produced as result of the massive success of the Apes franchise in the Lands of the Rising Sun. And if […]
Ape Week: Eva, the Savage Venus (1968): Italy’s “Planet of the Apes”
Hey, wait a minute . . . Jess Franco didn’t make this, R.D. Roberto Mauri made it! Yeah, yeah . . . slow down ye streamer. Hold off on the emails and comments, we got this. Yes, the above poster is, in fact, a Franco joint: one that aka’d in the drive-in and home video […]
Ape Week: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Mark Bomback and Matt Reeves wrote this installment, with Reeves returning to direct. Two years after the human-hating Koba attacked humans — Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Caesar and his tribe of intelligent apes have been forced to fight against Alpha-Omega, a military faction led by The Colonel (Woody Harrelson), who uses the apes […]
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