Published on May 8, 2024 at 08:00. / Modified on May 8, 2024 at 10:10.
Caesar is dead, long live Caesar! “Several generations” after the first chimpanzee to become as intelligent as a human opened the eyes of his fellow humans to free them from their constraints, another great primate took power, determined to build an empire worthy of Romans, but more in Caligula the tyrant mode than Trajan the just. Quick to enslave the weakest, flanked by a junk King Kong, he has only one idea in mind: acquiring human technology. Which? He has no idea, because after all he remains a monkey…
Between 2011 and 2017, a trilogy told the story of how chimpanzees, orangutans and other gorillas – but apparently not macaques or marmosets – managed to take power to the detriment of men and women, decimated by a virus which, they did not kill them, deprived most of them of speech. Directed by Rupert Wyatt for the first then Matt Reeves for the next two, The Origins, The Confrontation And Supremacy told how the Earth became The Planet of the Apesthus inventing a prologue to the eponymous novel published in 1963 by Pierre Boulle, and adapted twice for the big screen, by Franklin Schaffner in 1968 then Tim Burton in 2001.
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