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Over 60 years ago, author Pierre Boulle’s La Planete des singes debuted in France and the US. On these shores, it was renamed Planet of the Apes (which is much better than the UK’s hokey name for it: Monkey Planet). The novel was a massive hit even though Boulle thought it wasn’t his best. (In his defense, he did write The Bridge Over the River Kwai.)
The book was so popular that the owner of the movie rights for the US hired the legendary Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight…
