Why Planet Of The Apes' Security Was Unusually Tight On Set

Jan 2 2023 by /Film

 

"The Planet of the Apes" was not a style-over-substance type of science-fiction film, but the effectiveness of the story still lived and died on its special effects. If a title promises an otherworldly planet of inhabitants, it better deliver and showcase some damn, convincing apes. Fortunately, the film's make-up artists, chief among them the late John Chambers, delivered. Their efforts are the reason "Planet of the Apes" endures as a franchise to this day, and the make-up design process...

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