History Franchise / PlanetOfTheApes

** Terry Hayes' script, based on an outline by OliverStone (1994): A [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty reboot]] with little to nothing in common with the films or the novel, where a scientist played by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger travels back in time to OneMillionBC to find the cure of a plague that is decimating mankind and finds himself in the middle of a war between primitive humans and far more advanced, [[FrazettaMan gorilla-like hominids]]. It got as far as to get a $100 million budget confirmed and [[ClearAndPresentDanger Phillip Noyce]] attached as director before being cancelled when Hayes [[ExecutiveMeddling refused to introduce more comedy]].

'Conspiracy On The Planet Of The Apes' is the first in a planned series of six novels by Andrew E.C.Gaska intended to add to the movie canon and fill in some gaps. The second novel is currently scheduled for release in 2013, with a title of 'Death On The Planet Of The Apes' 'Conspiracy' centers on Virdon, and his ordeal while Taylor is with Zira and Cornelius in the first film. It also tells the story of Dr.Milo, and his endeavour to study and repair the damaged spacecraft.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Tell me, Dr. Zaius, why would an ape make a human doll that can talk?"

** Nevertheless, the series still portrays gorillas as violent brutes and chimpanzees as pacifists (chimpanzees are probably the most violent of the non-human ape species, and gorillas are generally reclusive and peaceful unless forced to defend themselves), either because they DidNotDoTheResearch or because [[ScienceMarchesOn Primatology Marched On]].
*** Perhaps this was why the BigBad of TimBurton's remake was a chimp, and TheDragon (a gorilla) ended up pulling a HeelFaceTurn.
**** Apparently Thade was originally going to be an [[EvilAlbino albino]] gorilla, but RickBaker told Burton that chimps are meaner.

** Possibly [[InvokedTrope deliberately invoked]] by the [[MoralGuardians orangutans]]. It is shown repeatedly that Dr. Zaius is hell-bent on eliminating any trace of ''ANYTHING'' that doesn't mesh with the apes' doctrine of law. The implication is that the orangutans possess far greater knowledge of the technology of man than is generally known[[hottip:*:which Zaius himself confirms to Taylor near the end]], and are ''deliberately'' thwarting the advance of certain fields of science [[{{Irony}} in order to prevent the apes from becoming the same self-destructive mess mankind became]].

* WhamShot: The Statue of Liberty at the was probably one for the early audience of people who manged to whatch the movie without knowing how it ends.

* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey, It's That Voice]]: PaulFrees gives the InsignificantLittleBluePlanet speech at the end.

* DevelopmentHell: The film was announced [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(2001_film)#Development as early as 1988]], and people such as PeterJackson, ChrisColumbus, and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger were involved before [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell it started to take off]] in 1999.

-->'''Attar''': Take your stinkin' paws of me, you damn dirty HUMAN![[hottip:*: It's also the first line in the film spoken by an ape, where the original line was the first thing Taylor actually said to an ape in the original film.]]
-->'''Thade's father''': Damn them. God Damn them all... to hell.[[hottip:*: It's also the last line Charlton Heston speaks in the movie, where the original line was the last thing Taylor (who was played by Heston) says in the original film]]

** PeterJackson's idea (1989): Similar to the above, but with the Ape civilization being analogous to TheRenaissance and TheHero being a [[HalfHumanHybrid half human]], [[{{squick}} half ape hybrid]] that a da Vinci-like old chimp played by [[TheCameo Roddy McDowall]] would hide from the Orangutan Inquisition.

* RetCon: In addition to humans speaking, burying their dead with headstones, and the like, the apes treat them as inferior but sentient creatures, rather than as lower animals. Prefect Barlow, for example, proudly displays a human-made portrait of himself in "The Gladiators."

* FridgeLogic: The chronometer showing Earth time is still working after the rest of the ship's power fails (in plot terms, Taylor has to see it immediately before he leaves the ship).

* EarthShatteringKaboom

* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet

* JustBeforeTheEnd

* PropRecycling: some sets were from ''Hello Dolly!''.

** The mutant humans worshiping A NUCLEAR BOMB are just as scary and dogmatic.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Brent.

* TechnicalPacifist: The Mutants. Brent outright calls them hypocrites.

* FridgeLogic: The humans learn that in the future, apes will talk and treat humans like animals. So they want to prevent Cornelius and Zira from having descendants as their descendants would probably be talking apes. [[ItWasHisSled They fail]]. But does this mean that Cornelius and Zira are their own ancestors?
** No, because the origin story they told (of an ape slave who one day said to humans what had been said to him a thousand times over - "no") is different from what came to be after they traveled back in time - their son Milo/Caesar became the [[MessianicArchetype savior of the apes]] instead.
** Probably not. Other chimps evolve by the time of the next film, after all.
** And their son, Milo [[spoiler:who becomes Caesar in that next film]] [[spoiler:loses his son by the time of the fifth and final Ape movie. It doesn't say he and his wife had more children.]]
*** On another point, it strains credibility (to say the least) that Dr. Milo would be able to raise Taylor's ship from the lakebed, ''refit its blown hatches'' and get it working again, just in time to escape the Earth's destruction. Of course, without that rather huge implausibility there'd be no movie, so...

* RootingForTheEmpire: You actually want the apes to take over. Especially after Armando's suicide.

* FridgeLogic: The humans and the apes are descended from the crew of the space station. Where did the horses come from?

* MythologyGag: Senator Nado's wife is named Nova, and Thade's father is named Zaius. Thade's father, (Charleton Heston in a cameo) repeated Taylor's famous "damn you all to hell..." line as he lay dying.

* ContinuityNod: The series is full of {{Shout Out}}s to ''Planet of the Apes'' and ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes''. Cornelius and Zira the Chimpanzee are scientists with respect for humans, Dr. Zaius the Orangutan is a lawkeeper hoping to kill the space travelers to avoid the destruction of the Ape society, Nova the savage woman... Nova even has the dogtags of Brent, the main character from ''Beneath''.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The desert region (obviously a ShoutOut to the Forbidden Zone) where the astronauts first land; out of nowhere, an avalanche, fire, and earthquake all appear in their turn, with both the fire and the earthquake vanishing without a sign they were there after destroying the astronauts' survival packs and swallowing Judy Franklin, respectively.

* AntiHero: Taylor is a misanthropic, rather vicious JerkAss. However, he is not without sympathetic traits, such as his affection for Nova and his disgust with [[spoiler: Landon's lobotomy]]. He also seems disappointed that the apes are no better than humans.

* AntiVillain: Doctor Zaius can be ruthless when pressed though he has fundementally good intentions as he seeks to prevent humanity from causing another appocalpyse and is at least reasonable enough to try and talk Taylor into making a false confession in exchange for his safety.

* JerryGoldsmith

'Conspiracy On The Planet Of The Apes' is the first in a planned series of six novels intended to add to the movie canon and fill in some gaps. The second novel is currently scheduled for release in 2013, with a title of 'Death On The Planet Of The Apes' 'Conspiracy' centers on Virdon, and his ordeal while Taylor is with Zira and Cornelius in the first film. It also tells the story of Dr.Milo, and his endeavour to study and repair the damaged spacecraft.

A media franchise based on the French novel ''La Planète des singes'' by Pierre Boulle consisting of seven movies in three continuities, a live-action series, and an animated series.

On this planet, there is a mute race of human-like creates, treated as animals by a race of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish sentient English-speaking apes]]. Caught in the middle of an ambush between Ape and Man, one of the astronauts is killed, another lobotomised and a third, George Taylor, is shot in the throat, which renders him mute like the other men. He is among the captured men, and taken back to the apes' mostly pre-industrial city. As the talking ape civilisation learn that Taylor, "Bright Eyes" to them, can (eventually) speak and write, they put him on trial for heresy against the ape civilisation's sacred scrolls.

* ThisIsSparta: Delivered as only [[HeyItsThatGuy Moses]] can say it. All together now: '''GOD! DAMN! YOU! ALL! TO! HELL!'''

* Scenery Porn: Seriously, this one isn't here yet? The Forbidden Zone scenes were shot around the Colorado River and Lake Powell in Utah, for starters.

**** Cornelius says 'human see! human do!' when Zira says he's trying to speak. They would have just asumed he was mindlessly copying the apes writing.

* SceneryPorn: Seriously, this one isn't here yet? The Forbidden Zone scenes were filmed along the Colorado River and Lake Powell in Utah, for starters.

** It apparently [[TomFelton runs in]] [[RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes the family.]]

*** Perhaps this was why the BigBad of {{Tim Burton}}'s remake was a chimp, and TheDragon (a gorilla) ended up pulling a HeelFaceTurn.

* IdiotBall: Most characters hold it at one point or another. Especially Taylor trying to prove to the apes that he is an intelligent being takes ridiculously long due to one blunder after another. Had he just motioned for Dr. Zira's notepad right away and shown immediately that he could write, things would've been that much simpler.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the "What have you done" variant.

* WhatMightHaveBeen: Scenes were scripted and filmed revealing, near the end, that Nova was pregnant with Taylor's child. The scenes were cut out of the final print, as it was felt that they changed the focus of the ending, leaving the door open to a sequel Heston didn't want (but got anyway).

* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Hasslein's obsession with killing Zira's baby merely ensures that nobody notices Zira had switched babies with another chimp mother at Armando's circus.

20 years have passed. During them, cats and dogs died of a mysterious disease, and apes became both household pets and servants for mankind. The United States became oppressive and fascist in culture, of uniformed classes and castes, based upon ape slave labour. And Milo, now known as Caesar, is a horseback rider in Armando's circus.

* [[DirectorsCut Director's Cut]]: The extended version included in the Legacy Collection improves the film considerably.

* ContinuityNod: So, [[spoiler: Zaius]], you go from being Minister of Science, proclaiming that apes and humans have nothing in common biologically, declaring that the principles of science and theology work side-by-side, and those who go against it are instant heretics to a senator who constantly reminds those of humanity's destructive nature? No wonder [[GeneralRipper Thade]] closely followed, and even amplified, your ideals.

* DevelopmentHell: The film was announced [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(2001_film)#Development as early as 1988]], and people such as PeterJackson, ChrisColumbus, and ArnoldSchwarzenegger were involved before [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell it started to take off]] in 1999.

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters

** Terry Hayes' script, based on an outline by OliverStone (1994): A [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty reboot]] with little to nothing in common with the films or the novel, where a scientist played by ArnoldSchwarzenegger travels back in time to OneMillionBC to find the cure of a plague that is decimating mankind and finds himself in the middle of a war between primitive humans and far more advanced, [[FrazettaMan gorilla-like hominids]]. It got as far as to get a $100 million budget confirmed and [[ClearAndPresentDanger Phillip Noyce]] attached as director before being cancelled when Hayes [[ExecutiveMeddling refused to introduce more comedy]].

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Strictly speaking, this goes for the ''humans.'' After a thousand years, linguistic drift should have made their English near-incomprehensible to the apes and other humans.
* AllThereInTheManual: The only clue we have about how the series might have ended comes from a series of spots shot for the TV movies, "hosted" by Galen. Apparently, [[spoiler: Burke and Virdon escaped, although we don't know if they made it back to 1980.]] [[http://youtu.be/pxE10ClIcj4 Here's the final spot]].
* ApocalypticLog: "The Legacy."
* ArcWords: "Friend."
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Galen suffers from this.
* BreadAndCircuses: Prefect Barlow uses the gladiator games to keep the village quiet.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Gorillas (black and purple), chimpanzees (green), orangutans (orange).

* TheDeterminator: Virdon. He's going to get home, no matter how many [[IdiotBall idiot balls]] he needs to carry along the way.

* DullSurprise: Most of the apes accept the idea of time-traveling humans with remarkable calm.

* EnemyMine: "The Trap," "The Tyrant."

* FantasticCasteSystem: [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]] in "The Tyrant." Gorillas do army and police work; chimpanzees are doctors and bureaucrats; and the orangutans control upper-level slots in government, education, and religion.
* FantasticRacism: All apes vs. humans, but also chimpanzees vs. gorillas vs. orangutans.

* GilliganCut: Galen, refusing to learn how to fly a makeshift glider, declares, "I put my foot down!" Cut to Galen putting his foot down as he learns to fly a makeshift glider.
* GladiatorGames: "The Gladiators".
* HappinessInSlavery: Many of the humans accept their inferiority without question. Tolar in "The Gladiators" is fully loyal to his prefect.

* TheHeretic: One of Galen's many, many problems.

* LostTechnology: All of human civilization, basically. Zaius has some grenades in his office, which serve as mementos of the human capacity for destruction.

* MeaningfulName: Galen, who is genuinely intrigued by human history and technological accomplishments, is named after one of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen great scientists of antiquity]]. He passes himself off as a scientist in "The Gladiators."

* MonkeysOnATypewriter: Comic inversion in "The Gladiators." Prefect Barlow suggests that if you give "fifty humans" enough paint, they'll ultimately manage to create the apes' own great works of art.
* {{Nepotism}}: In the pilot, Galen tells Zaius point-blank that he deserves a job because of Zaius' previous connections with his family.
* OnlySaneMan: Burke, as far as he's concerned.
* PetTheDog: Prefect Barlow's behavior at the end of both "The Gladiators" and "The Race."
* PowerTrio: Burke, Virdon, Galen.
* {{Prequel}}: Set over eight centuries before the first film.
* PropagandaMachine: Even though another set of astronauts landed a decade before the series begins, according to the pilot, the High Council has successfully turned them into tall tales.
* RetCon: In addition to humans speaking, burying their dead with headstones, and the like, the apes treat them as inferior but sentient creatures, rather than as lower animals. Prefect Barlow, for example, proudly displays a human-made portrait of himself in "The Gladiators."
* ScienceIsBad: Why Zaius is working to keep knowledge about human technology secret.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Burke and Virdon make zero progress towards their goal.
* StockFootage: The gorilla signalmen are the most obvious example.
* ThemeNaming: Many of the chimpanzees have classical names, like Augustus, Galen, and Lucian.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Burke and Virdon began their mission in 1980.

** He would also have a son named Zonda.

* WhatTheHellHero: In "The Cure," instead of being deferential to Virdon as usual, Galen sharply dresses him down twice: first for opening up to a village girl about their real origins, then for having a guilt complex about a possible plague epidemic.

* CanonWelding: The comics, the timeline in MarvelComics' ''Planet of the Apes'' magazine #11, and the subsequent ''Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definite Chronology'' try to fit all the series of the franchise in one universe. With [[YourMileageMayVary varying success]].

-->'''Thade's father''': Damn them. God Damn them all... to hell.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Who knew [[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]] was such a nice guy?

* HeyItsThatGuy: Urko is [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock's dad]].

-->-- '''George Taylor's reason for leaving Earth''', as related to fellow astronaut Landon.

* LawfulNeutral: Perdix from "The Deception", unlike most gorilla character.