All eight films in the science-fiction franchise thus far. In
'Planet of the Apes' (1968) a group of astronauts, led by George
Taylor (Charlton Heston), crash lands on a strange planet where
mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is
hunted down and captured by horse-riding gorillas, and then taken
for experimentation by chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). When Zira
discovers Taylor's intelligence, she and her fiancé, Cornelius
(Roddy McDowall), appeal to the governing council on his behalf,
but the appeal fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go on
the run. Fleeing for his freedom, Taylor soon makes a shocking
discovery about the provenance of this strange planet. In 'Beneath
the Planet of the Apes' (1970) astronaut Brent (James Franciscus)
is on a special mission to rescue George Taylor (Heston). After
travelling to the ape village where he was imprisoned, he meets Dr
Zira (Hunter) and learns that Taylor was last seen in the Forbidden
Zone. Setting off in pursuit he soon discovers that his colleague
has been taken prisoner by an underground society of telepathic
mutant humans who worship an atomic warhead. In 'Escape from the
Planet of the Apes' (1971) Dr Zira (Hunter), Cornelius (McDowall)
and Dr Milo (Sal Mineo) escape the nuclear devastation of Earth by
travelling back in time in Taylor's spaceship, arriving in Los
Angeles in the year 1973. They are initially held in captivity in a
zoo, where Milo is attacked and killed by a savage gorilla. When
Zira and Cornelius prove their intelligence they are released and
hailed as celebrities, but some resent the apes' arrival, seeing
them as a threat to human supremacy. In 'Conquest of the Planet of
the Apes' (1972) the year is now 1991. Caesar (McDowall), the son
of Zira and Cornelius, has been sheltered for 18 years by circus
owner Armando (Ricardo Montalban). Following a plague which wiped
out all cats and dogs, apes have been adopted as pets by humans,
but when Caesar sees them being treated as slaves, he leads his
fellow simians in rebellion against their overlords. 'Battle for
the Planet of the Apes' (1973) opens in the year 2670 with the ape
Lawgiver (John Huston) relating how, following the 1991 simian
rebellion, mankind embarked on a terrible nuclear war. In the
devastation which followed, Caesar (McDowall) and the apes seized
control, ruling benevolently over the human survivors, and working
to rebuild society. However, civil war was being fomented by
ambitious gorilla general Aldo (Claude Akins), and when Caesar
ventured into the devastated city to seek out recordings of his
late parents, Cornelius and Zira, he incurred the wrath of a group
of mutant human survivors. In 'Planet of the Apes' (2001), Tim
Burton's 're-imagining' of the 1968 original, the year is 2029, and
Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is aboard a spaceship trying to
teach apes how to become space pilots. During a routine
reconnaissance mission outside the mothership, Leo is sucked into a
space-time hole and minutes later makes a crash landing on a
strange planet where humans are subjugated by talking apes. Just as
a quick death at the hands of the violent ape leader General Thade
(Tim Roth) seems inevitable, Leo is rescued by the ape scientist
Ari (Helena Bonham Carter). In 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'
(2011) James Franco stars as Will Rodman, a genetic engineer
working in present-day San Francisco who is performing scientific
tests on apes in his attempt to find a cure for Alzheimer's
disease. His first test subject is Caesar (Andy Serkis), the
prototype of a new breed of ape with human-like intelligence. But
when Caesar breaks free, a revolution is triggered and an epic war
for supremacy breaks out between humankind and the primates of the
world. Finally, in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' (2014), Caesar,
the hyper-intelligent ape produced by human experimentation, is now
the leader of a growing band of cognisant simians as a fragile
truce prevails between the apes and humans. Many consider the
outbreak of war to only be a matter of time, however, since the
human population has been vastly reduced by a devastating virus and
their role as the dominant species on Earth is in question. As
tensions rise, it may only take a single spark to trigger an
explosive war that will pit the humans against the apes in an
all-out battle for survival...
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