Here they were applying to men the very experiments which he had carried out on dogs. ‘All of a sudden, we are not only the least powerful among the apes, but also the least intelligent.’ As Frans de Waal explains in his fascinating introduction, our so-called ‘noble traits’ hold little sway when humans are no longer on top of the ladder. Initially ecstatic to find a lush biosphere with human inhabitants, Ulysse and his fellow travellers are shocked to discover that the pathetic human population is ruled by an intellectually superior civilisation of apes. Set on the idyllic-looking planet of Soros, the story follows three astronauts who leave Earth in the year 2500. But while Kwai is influenced by his wartime experiences – captured and subjected to two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp – the sci-fi classic employs a fictitious premise to encourage a moral debate. A series reboot with a new production team called Rise of the Planet of the Apes was released in 2011 to critical and commercial success.The author of The Bridge over the River Kwai, Boulle was already internationally acclaimed when he wrote Planet of the Apes. A second adaptation of the book was released in 2001 directed by Tim Burton as a loose remake of the 1968 film of the same name. The film was a critical and commercial success, spawning four sequels between 19. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson & Rod Serling and starring Charlton Heston. The first film was Planet of the Apes (1968), directed by Franklin J.
Boulle's novel inspired a media franchise comprising eight films, two television series, and several comic books.
Pierre Boulle’s tale of astronauts trapped on a planet ruled by apes offers “a parable of racial and other social failings on Earth, in the grand satiric tradition of Gulliver’s Travels” (Anatomy of Wonder II:143). Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Boldly signed by Pierre Boulle on the front free endpaper. The sixth installment in the Planet of the Apes film series, it is loosely based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle and serves as a remake of the 1968 film. First edition in English of Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel that launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history. Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal.
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