charlton heston

Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: The coronaretrospective of anticipation cinema - Loris S. Musumeci

Planet of the Apes has become a veritable planet. It is the focus of several film series, comic books, studies, commentaries - in short, a whole literature, a whole culture. But it all started with Pierre Boulle's best-selling novel, published in 1963. Since then, Hollywood has seized on the story, first adapting it freely, but soberly. And then exploited it even further, with sequels and origins. All thanks to the box-office triumph of the first film in the saga. Planet of the Apes (1968) directed by Franklin Schaffner.