Pierre Boulle

"Experience mankind's greatest adventure. This thrilling sci-fi original is a breathtaking ride. Charlton Heston stars as Taylor, an astronaut who crash-lands on a mysterious world where intelligent apes rule, and hunt primitive, speechless humans for sport. Soon, Taylor's life depends on the kindness of the chimpanzee scientists Cornelius and Zira and his escape to the Forbidden Zone, where he uncovers an earth-shattering secret that may hold the...

In a remake of the original 1968 film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet, he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers and humans are little more than slaves.