--- product_id: 85832961 title: "The Making of Planet of the Apes: A Comprehensive Fiftieth Anniversary History with Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Photographs" price: "260.11 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/85832961-the-making-of-planet-of-the-apes-a-comprehensive-fiftieth store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Making of Planet of the Apes: A Comprehensive Fiftieth Anniversary History with Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Photographs **Price:** 260.11 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Making of Planet of the Apes: A Comprehensive Fiftieth Anniversary History with Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Photographs - **How much does it cost?** 260.11 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/85832961-the-making-of-planet-of-the-apes-a-comprehensive-fiftieth) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description FOREWORD BY FRASER HESTON In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Planet of the Apes, the classic science-fiction film from 1968, The Making of Planet of the Apes tells the film and offers exclusive, never-before-seen photographs and concept art. Based on Pierre Boulle's novel La Planéte de singes , the original Planet of the Apes was one of the most celebrated films of the 1960s and beyond. Starring Hollywood icons Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall, the movie struck a chord with the world and sparked a franchise that included eight sequels, two television series, and a long-running comic book. Now, five decades after its theatrical release, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler tells the thrilling story of this legendary Hollywood production—a film even Boulle thought would be impossible to make. With a foreword by Fraser Heston, Charlton Heston's son, The Making of Planet of the Apes is an entertaining, informative experience that will transport readers back to the strange alternate Earth ruled by apes, and bring to life memorable characters such as Cornelius, Dr. Zira, Dr. Zaius, and Taylor, the human astronaut whose time-traveling sparks an incredible adventure. Meticulously researched and designed to capture the look and atmosphere of the film, The Making of Planet of the Apes is also packed with a wealth of concept paintings, storyboards, and never-before-seen imagery—including rare journal pages and sketches from Charlton Heston's private collection—as well as color and black-and-white unit photography, posters, and more unique ephemera. Comprehensive in scope, The Making of Planet of the Apes is the definitive look at the original blockbuster film, a must-have for fans, film buffs, and collectors alike. Review: Excellent photos with in depth writing and a good prose style that you can’t put down - For the past three days, I’ve been reading John W. Rindler‘s “The Making of the Planet of the Apes,” and I just put it down. I purchased this large table book which is 334 pages long back at the beginning of the summer, and it’s sat on my coffee table, untouched for no less than several months. Back then it went for about $34.00, plus tax, but desertcart now has it as part of its Black Friday sales, and it’s reduced even further down to $24.00. It has a lot of beautiful pictures, and I thought it probably was just a fluff piece, but I wanted to see the photographs and drawings in high resolution and in color. After all, I had read several other books on The Planet of the Apes, and I figured I had learned about as much as I was going to learn from these books, and viewing the films innumerable times since I was in high school, but sometimes I am a bit of a completionist, and I love almost everything about POTA. This book turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It was no fluff piece with just pretty pictures, although there are many amazing pictures in it, but it delved into virtually all aspects that went into the making of the Planet of the Apes, with an excellent forward by Charleston Heston’s son, Frazier, who his parents brought all over the world and to all their father’s shootings, along with his sister. I would highly recommend it if you are into learning more about all aspects that film, and its writer moves the details along with a fairly good prose style. Here are a few pictures that I clicked off while reading it, but there are certainly many others that are equally or even more amazing that I just didn’t have the time to photograph. If there are any drawbacks to the book, it is that it’s so heavy. As I’ve said before, it comes in at 304 pages, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but its dimensions are 11.4 x 1.2 x 10.8 inches, and it weighs in at a good 2.31 pounds. You really need two solid hands to hold onto if you want to read it on your lap, and forget holding a drink or eating if you’re going to read it that way. About half the time I read it on my couch or I took it over to the the island in my dining room, carefully laying it down and getting the proper light to read it and enjoy all the high quality color reprints. This book probably taught me more about all the elements that went into conceptualization of the book with all the various different elements and all the different people, and personalities that went into the book, from Pier Boulle, to the producers, writers, and actors. It was hideously complex to assemble and adapt and it is not hyperbole to say that the end result is nothing short of a minor miracle. Hundreds of people went into making the film, but I have to really thank Arthur P. Jacobs for his tireless devotion and dedicating literally many years!, and never giving up. Without him this film would never have been made.  There were a few surprises as to who added contributions and tweaked the script in important ways that would have made for a dramatically different drama and many changed scenes than the classic we’ve now all come to love and wish to talk about here. The script actually took a lot of work to polish, and rewrite multiple times. From Rod Sterling’s serious Science Fiction take, to Wilson’s rewriting all the dialogue with elements of sardonic humor, and commentary on history, politics, literary allusions, and the Inquisition/Mccarthy Red Scare allusions (he was a blacklisted writer), to another writer adding further changes to the camera scenes and dialogue, to even some actors and other people tweaking it whom I won’t divulge. The very last lines and iconic Statue scenes almost never existed. Taylor’s final lines weren’t in the script! Since it’s on sale you might want to check it out and add it to your collection, or give it as a gift.  The pictures are in black and white and mostly in color, with drawings, sketches, artwork, photographs, and the author draws from Fox’s archives, the Heston’s estate, and many other sources, some of which I’d read before, but with many, many details and interviews that I didn’t previously know.  If you get it, I think you’ll enjoy it. Go Ape!  Review: Going APE for a book that any PRIMATE can enjoy! - As someone who worked at 20th Century-Fox from 1989-2015, and who was also their unofficial historian to boot, I have to say that J.W. Rinzler's MAKING OF THE PLANET APES is one of the best "making of" movie books I have ever read. It takes the reader from the origins of the Pierre Boulle novel all the way through producer Arthur Jacobs vision of making the movie, and director Franklin Schaffner's excellent execution of it. Every detail, every artist conception drawing, production blueprints, make-up tests... production scene construction, stage and location filming... it's all here in one engrossing book that's fully illustrated with behind-the-scenes and candid photos that I've never seen before. Having known and worked with people who were employed on the original, and certainly the very BEST ape movie ever, I can only think that this book does them great credit, and provides a wonderful memento for their families and friends. The B&W and color stills are beautifully reproduced and laid out in the best possible way, and the exhaustive research and the most trivial details of the movie's production are sure to be a wonderful surprise for any fan. The original 1968 PLANET OF THE APES movie is iconic and special for a number of reasons... The fact that it was very original and unique... The fact that it was so innovative and ground breaking in both it's make-up design and music scoring... The fact that every penny spent is right up there on the screen, completed on schedule with a tight budget... And the fact of it's perfect script, casting and directing. They certainly don't make movies like that anymore, and you don't get fabulous books like this one coming along too often either! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #264,345 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #57 in TV References #76 in Performing Arts Reference #250 in Video Direction & Production (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 419 Reviews | ## Images ![The Making of Planet of the Apes: A Comprehensive Fiftieth Anniversary History with Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Photographs - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bz5+u0X4L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent photos with in depth writing and a good prose style that you can’t put down *by D***S on November 22, 2024* For the past three days, I’ve been reading John W. Rindler‘s “The Making of the Planet of the Apes,” and I just put it down. I purchased this large table book which is 334 pages long back at the beginning of the summer, and it’s sat on my coffee table, untouched for no less than several months. Back then it went for about $34.00, plus tax, but Amazon now has it as part of its Black Friday sales, and it’s reduced even further down to $24.00. It has a lot of beautiful pictures, and I thought it probably was just a fluff piece, but I wanted to see the photographs and drawings in high resolution and in color. After all, I had read several other books on The Planet of the Apes, and I figured I had learned about as much as I was going to learn from these books, and viewing the films innumerable times since I was in high school, but sometimes I am a bit of a completionist, and I love almost everything about POTA. This book turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It was no fluff piece with just pretty pictures, although there are many amazing pictures in it, but it delved into virtually all aspects that went into the making of the Planet of the Apes, with an excellent forward by Charleston Heston’s son, Frazier, who his parents brought all over the world and to all their father’s shootings, along with his sister. I would highly recommend it if you are into learning more about all aspects that film, and its writer moves the details along with a fairly good prose style. Here are a few pictures that I clicked off while reading it, but there are certainly many others that are equally or even more amazing that I just didn’t have the time to photograph. If there are any drawbacks to the book, it is that it’s so heavy. As I’ve said before, it comes in at 304 pages, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but its dimensions are 11.4 x 1.2 x 10.8 inches, and it weighs in at a good 2.31 pounds. You really need two solid hands to hold onto if you want to read it on your lap, and forget holding a drink or eating if you’re going to read it that way. About half the time I read it on my couch or I took it over to the the island in my dining room, carefully laying it down and getting the proper light to read it and enjoy all the high quality color reprints. This book probably taught me more about all the elements that went into conceptualization of the book with all the various different elements and all the different people, and personalities that went into the book, from Pier Boulle, to the producers, writers, and actors. It was hideously complex to assemble and adapt and it is not hyperbole to say that the end result is nothing short of a minor miracle. Hundreds of people went into making the film, but I have to really thank Arthur P. Jacobs for his tireless devotion and dedicating literally many years!, and never giving up. Without him this film would never have been made.  There were a few surprises as to who added contributions and tweaked the script in important ways that would have made for a dramatically different drama and many changed scenes than the classic we’ve now all come to love and wish to talk about here. The script actually took a lot of work to polish, and rewrite multiple times. From Rod Sterling’s serious Science Fiction take, to Wilson’s rewriting all the dialogue with elements of sardonic humor, and commentary on history, politics, literary allusions, and the Inquisition/Mccarthy Red Scare allusions (he was a blacklisted writer), to another writer adding further changes to the camera scenes and dialogue, to even some actors and other people tweaking it whom I won’t divulge. The very last lines and iconic Statue scenes almost never existed. Taylor’s final lines weren’t in the script! Since it’s on sale you might want to check it out and add it to your collection, or give it as a gift.  The pictures are in black and white and mostly in color, with drawings, sketches, artwork, photographs, and the author draws from Fox’s archives, the Heston’s estate, and many other sources, some of which I’d read before, but with many, many details and interviews that I didn’t previously know.  If you get it, I think you’ll enjoy it. Go Ape!  ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Going APE for a book that any PRIMATE can enjoy! *by G***L on March 21, 2019* As someone who worked at 20th Century-Fox from 1989-2015, and who was also their unofficial historian to boot, I have to say that J.W. Rinzler's MAKING OF THE PLANET APES is one of the best "making of" movie books I have ever read. It takes the reader from the origins of the Pierre Boulle novel all the way through producer Arthur Jacobs vision of making the movie, and director Franklin Schaffner's excellent execution of it. Every detail, every artist conception drawing, production blueprints, make-up tests... production scene construction, stage and location filming... it's all here in one engrossing book that's fully illustrated with behind-the-scenes and candid photos that I've never seen before. Having known and worked with people who were employed on the original, and certainly the very BEST ape movie ever, I can only think that this book does them great credit, and provides a wonderful memento for their families and friends. The B&W and color stills are beautifully reproduced and laid out in the best possible way, and the exhaustive research and the most trivial details of the movie's production are sure to be a wonderful surprise for any fan. The original 1968 PLANET OF THE APES movie is iconic and special for a number of reasons... The fact that it was very original and unique... The fact that it was so innovative and ground breaking in both it's make-up design and music scoring... The fact that every penny spent is right up there on the screen, completed on schedule with a tight budget... And the fact of it's perfect script, casting and directing. They certainly don't make movies like that anymore, and you don't get fabulous books like this one coming along too often either! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Only Book POTA Fans Will Ever Need! *by I***Y on July 20, 2024* Extremely detailed, well-researched, informative and entertaining account of the making of the first "Planet of the Apes" film. This book takes a deep dive into all the day-to-day minutiae of making of the first film. I've read multiple books about the first film series as I have been a lifelong fan since first watching all 5 of them on the big screen in a second-run movie theater in 1974 when I was a kid and this is the very best book of the lot. It's a handsome, large, hard-cover book with tons of cool early concept sketches, illustrations and behind-the-scenes photos that are sure to please fans of the film. 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