Why Don't We Appreciate Planet Of The Apes?

by Panzer
I offered you peace.
And you killed my family.
If you didn't know any better, you'd think that this sinister, coiled
betrayal of a lead character was a star making Oscar nominated performance.
And yet Andy Serkis’ turn as Caesar in the three rebooted Planet of the Apes
films, was passed over for awards recognition
and that seems to be a constant with these objectively great films.
They come and go despite being arguably one of the best modern trilogies.
They don't seem to have left a terribly deep groove culturally.
In fact, you could almost say that about all the iterations of the Apes franchise.
Why is that?
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The storied franchise known as Planet of the Apes began
its life as a 1963 French novel written by Pierre Boulle,
titled La planete des singes when the book was translated into English.
It was given two distinct titles.
The U.S.
release received The familiar Planet of the Apes,
while the UK publication was dubbed Monkey Planet.
It should be readily apparent which of those titles had staying power.
The novel is significantly different from its eventual film adaptation,
but thanks to some fresh ideas brought to the project
by writers Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame and Michael Wilson,
the bones of the novel were evolved into something completely new and original.
The film followed the broad strokes of the book's plot,
but with one major, very Rod Serling esque twist.
You maniac
you blew it up
This brilliant ending
is now seen as one of the most iconic film climaxes of all time.
The film was a massive success,
pulling in $33.3 million off a budget of only 5 million.
A large portion of this success was owed to the fact that Charlton Heston's
performance as Taylor received rave reviews
take your sticking paws off me you damn dirty ape when everything was said and done.
Fox now only had one objective Make more apes films.
Only there was one problem.
Charlton Heston didn't want to return.