Editing Planet of the Apes (section)

==The OG Films==
The first film adaptation of Pierre Boulle's novel came out in 1968, and was a smash hit. Making some pragmatic adaptations, largely by avoiding the traveling between planets angle and instead revealing that the "alien" world is in fact a post-apocalyptic Earth, it still seared its place into pop culture.

The Planet of the Apes as depicted in this film is a roughly Iron Age world, with a few anachronistic pieces of higher technology, largely in the form of rifles and pistols. Chimpanzees are peaceful workers and scientists, gorillas are brutish military and police enforcers, and orangutans are the secular and spiritual authorities, whilst humans are little more than animals - mute and with maybe a Stone Age level of technology.

A sequel, ''Beneath The Planet of the Apes'', followed in 1970, and despite ending with the world officially being blown up, three more films followed in each of the subsequent three years; ''Escape from the Planet of the Apes'' (1971) set up a time travel loop, with chimp scientists Cornelius and Zira using a human spaceship to flee before Earth exploded and somehow traveling through time to Earth. 1972's ''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'' and 1973's ''Battle for the Planet of the Apes'' continue from ''Escape'' and set things up for the rise of apes as the dominant species, as well as engendering a [[skub|never ending debate]] on whether or not these three films created a time loop or an alternate universe.