Planet Of The Apps Release Date

Planet Of The Apps Release Date

Unbiased and independent advice on what to buy

Type to search
Press enter or click on the search icon

Trending:
iPhone 13 Review
Pixel 6 Review
Best TV
Best VPN
Best iPhone
Best Wireless Earbuds
Best Laptop

Home

Tech News

Planet of the Apps: All you need to know about Apple’s new show

By Joe Roberts

February 14, 2017 1:25 pm GMT

Trusted Reviews is supported by its audience. If you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a commission. Learn more.
Planet of the Apps: All you need to know about Apple’s upcoming reality show, including trailers, release date, and how to watch.
Apple is pushing forward in characteristically innovative fashion by providing us all with a new reality TV show. Yes, in the age of Trumpdom, Cook and co. have decided what we all need is another dose of reality TV, but this one is all about the execution.
Apple’s latest attempt at original content will see developers pitching apps to a panel of experts, Dragons’ Den-style – a bold new idea from the mind of technological trailblazer Will.i.am. But there’s got to be more to it than that, surely? Read on to find out how Apple is putting its own spin on reality TV.
Apple’s Eddy Cue spoke to Ben Silverman, one of the people behind Planet of the Apps, at the Code Media conference on February 13. What did Silverman reveal? Well first up, we’ve got the first proper trailer for the new show:
Silverman also revealed that the show will premiere in the Spring, with users able to keep up with all the frantic app-developing action through Apple Music and a forthcoming Planet of the Apps app – naturally.
The brainchild of Will.i.am and Ben Silverman, Planet of the Apps is a sort of Dragons’ Den (or Shark Tank if you’re stateside) meets The Voice – where on earth does Will.i.am get his ideas? The latest trailer sort of explains the whole thing quite nicely, but here’s the breakdown.
Developers are given 60 seconds to give an “escalator pitch” of their app to a panel of celebrity backers or ‘advisors’. These include Gary Vaynerchuk, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, and of course, the man himself, Will.i.am. These advisors can then decide whether they’re interested in working with the developer on the app, or whether they’d rather pass (they definitely don’t say “I’m out” so it’s totally different to Dragons’ Den).
But this is where it really kicks into high gear. If several advisors decide they like the sound of the dev’s app, that dev can then decide which wise and nurturing panel member they would like on their side (there’s no spinning chairs though, so it’s totally different to the Voice).
Once the developer and advisor have formed their alliance, the latter will guide the former through the tricky process of creating, marketing, and testing the app. Developers will then be given a chance to pitch to Lightspeed Venture Partners, a panel of backers which will eventually pick a winner and provide them a very generous $10 million (£7.9 million) in funding to get the app to the masses. The winning developer will also have their app appear as a ‘featured app’ on Apple’s App Store.
When will we get to enjoy this mighty clash of the developers? Well, Ben Silverman revealed during February’s Code Media conference that the show is set to arrive in the Spring. Beyond that, however, we don’t have an exact release date. That said, the Spring isn’t all that far away, and now the first trailer has dropped, we’re expecting to get a final launch date very soon, so stay tuned.
This being an Apple-backed venture, you’re not going to see Planet of the Apps appearing on BBC One or Netflix. No, instead, the company will be making the show available through its Apple Music service, in the same way as it’s James Corden-inspired Carpool Karaoke spin-off.
But there’s more to it than that. According to Silverman, Apple will release a specific Planet of the Apps application, which will also allow users to access the episodes as they’re released. Each instalment will be released one at a time, and in a merciful move from Apple, the episodes will come completely ad-free.
Isn’t that one of the Wayans brothers power napping through a pitch?
There’s even been talk of a “rubber band” approach (if you like these buzzwords, there’s bound to be tonnes of deep diving and blue sky thinking in the show itself), whereby users can get a more in-depth look at particular parts of an episode, before returning to the main show.
So far we’ve only been given this clip, which sees Beats 1 host Zane Lowe, who also looks like he’ll be on hosting duties, guiding us through the show’s premise and various stages.
We’re expecting more trailers in the near future, so stay tuned.
Let us know what you think of Apple’s TV plans in the comments.
Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct.
We also expect our journalists to follow clear ethical standards in their work. Our staff members must strive for honesty and accuracy in everything they do. We follow the IPSO Editors’ code of practice to underpin these standards.
Founded in 2004, Trusted Reviews exists to give our readers thorough, unbiased
and independent advice on what to buy.
Today, we have millions of users a month from around the world, and assess more than 1,000 products a year.
Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct.
We also expect our journalists to follow clear ethical standards in their work. Our staff members must strive for honesty and accuracy in everything they do. We follow the IPSO Editors’ code of practice to underpin these standards.
Products tested and reviewed since 2003

Home
TV

TV news

Explainer
Provides context or background, definition and detail on a specific topic.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Chris Hall.

2003 - 2022 © Pocket-lint Limited PO Box 4770, Ascot, SL5
5DP. All rights reserved. England and Wales company registration number 5237480.

Pocket-lint is supported by its readers. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more

(Pocket-lint) - The first Planet of the Apes film released 52 years ago. It has been a huge influence on popular culture and even spawned eight sequels, a few of which manage to rival the original in terms of critical and box office success.
But with nine films all similarly named, it can get really confusing trying to figure out the best order to watch them all. You could go by theatrical release date, but we think it’s more fun to watch the films chronologically, as you can watch the events unfold in a beginning-to-end timeline.
There's the first five Planet of the Apes films, which released between 1968 and 1973, and then the three modern films from the 2010s that star Andy Serkis as Caeser. T he Serkis movies are connected to the original five (and we explain how below), but to make things complicated, there is a standalone Planet of the Apes movie, from 2001 starring Mark Whalberg, which is basically a remake.
Confused? No worries. We made sense of this jumbled timeline below.
Follow our guide below, and you will watch the events in the Planet of the Apes movies as they happened. At the bottom, you'll find a spoiler-free, bulleted-list version of this guide, plus additional watch orders with absolutely no spoilers.
The first film in our watchlist sees James Franco star as Will Rodman, a scientist in the near future researching a cure for Alzheimer’s. The film opens when Rodman discovers a baby chimp that's been exposed to an experimental drug. When the baby’s mother dies, Rodman takes it home to raise, naming him Caesar. Rupert Wyatt directed this film, and Andy Serkis plays Caesar via motion capture.
Make sure you keep an eye out for the news report about the spacecraft Icarus entering the Martian atmosphere - it's an easter egg alluding to Charlton Heston’s spacecraft in the original film.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes picks up 10 years after the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes and sees Andy Serkis’ Caesar leading a burgeoning civilisation of apes in the Redwood forests outside of San Francisco. Most of humanity has been wiped out by the Simian plague, but remnants led by a man named Dreyfus (played by Gary Oldman) encounter the apes when they enter the forest to repair a Hydroelectric Dam.
Matt Reeves directed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Matt Reeves returned to direct this film. It picks up two years after Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and sees Caesar still leading his people. But now he's dealing with the fallout of Koba’s insurrection against him, which causes an elite group of soldiers, led by Colonel J. Wesley McCullough (played by Woody Harrelson) to begin hunting Caesar’s apes. Caesar’s only hope to get his family away is to cross a vast desert.
Near the end of the film, we see some of Caesar’s friends assure him that the burgeoning ape society he helped create will know everything he sacrificed for them - an important nod that helps explain why another ape will be named Caesar later in our timeline.
The fourth film on our list started it all. Directed by Franklin J Schaffner, it follows three astronauts as they awake from a crash landing on a mysterious planet.
Eventually, one of the astronauts, George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston), is captured by advanced apes. Taylor joins forces with one sympathetic ape, named Dr Zira (played by Kim Hunter), who studies him. Later, he goes into the Forbidden Zone desert to try to escape the apes holding him captive. That's when he discovers the truth about the world the apes inhabit.
An astronaut named Brent (played by James Franciscus) is the only survivor of a ship sent to find the three astronauts from the first Planet of the Apes film. Soon after landing in the Forbidden Zone, Brent meets Nova, Taylor’s love interest from the first film. She is still wearing the astronauts' dog tags. She brings Brent to the ape city, where he meets Dr Zira. She tells him about her time with Taylor.
Brent then goes back to the Forbidden Zone and finds an entrance to a New York City subway and a mutated race of humans worshipping a doomsday device. Ted Post took over directing duties for this film.
Directed by Don Taylor, this film is where our Apes timeline really begins to get weird. At the conclusion of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, we see the destruction of the planet by the Alpha and Omega doomsday device. However, before that happens, Dr Zira and her husband Cornelius (played by Roddy McDowall) discover and begin to repair the original ship that brought Taylor to the Planet of the Apes.
The two apes use it to travel to 1973, or when the planet is destroyed. They become celebrities and are at the center of a government investigation into why Taylor’s ship suddenly reappeared with talking apes but no astronauts. Just as the government begins to suspect Dr Zira hasn't been truthful to the government, it’s revealed she’s pregnant. She and Cornelius must escape capture to save their child, Milo.
In the year 1991, Zira’s child is alive and grown-up. He is portrayed by Roddy McDowall, who also starred as Cornelius in the previous film.
Anyway, Zira’s child, newly named Caesar, was raised in hiding by Armando (played by Ricardo Montalban), the circus owner she left him with at the conclusion of the Escape from the Planet of the Apes. The film follows Caesar through a dark world in which cats and dogs have died off, and apes have become a common pet and even an abused source of slave labor. Caesar is the only ape who can speak in this world. Eventually, he becomes enslaved, and it leads to an uprising.
There is a theory that Caesar from 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes was the first intelligent ape, and that the Caesar in this film is one of his descendants. He'd be part of a new chain of events set off by his mother going back in time. While his new name, Caesar, could be a coincidence, it’s likely a nod to the original Caesar, who is a foundational part of the ape culture, which Zira would’ve shared with Armando or her son before she died.
This film shows an older Caesar (played by Roddy McDowall) leading a society where apes and humans coexist after a nuclear war. But the society is being torn apart by threats from a militant faction of apes, led by Aldo (played by Claude Akins), who wants to make humans subservient. Caesar learns of tapes that exist in the Forbidden Zone that show his mother speaking about how conflict between ape and man caused the destruction of Earth. While in search of those tapes, Caesar also discovers a group of mutated humans, led by Governor Kolp (played by Severn Darden), who view the apes as a threat and set out to destroy them.
Between the tapes of his mother and lessons he learned along his journey to this point, Caesar understands that the only way to prevent the Earth’s destruction is by helping humans and apes to live together in peace, fulfilling the original Caesar’s final wishes.
J. Lee Thompson directed Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
Did you know there is a Planet of the Apes TV series? It was broadcast on CBS in 1974. Featuring just 14 episodes, the series stars Ron Harper, James Naughton, Roddy McDowall, Mark Lenard, and Booth Colman but was canceled after a mere season due to poor ratings. It is based on the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes and its sequels. So, if you want to watch it, we suggest slotting it in after Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
Since this much-maligned Tim Burton reboot doesn't fit anywhere else in the Planet of the Apes series, you should watch it last as a bonus treat. While the film isn’t quite as bad as you might remember, it’s a one-off standalone that bombed when it premiered 20 years ago.
Set in 2029, it shows Leo Davidson (played by Mark Wahlberg), who works aboard the Space Station Oberon, entering an electromagnetic storm and being thrown to the year 5021. He lands on a world ruled by an ape named General Thade (played by Tim Roth), teams up with a female ape named Ari (played by Helena Bonham Carter) who is protesting for human rights, and tries to find his way back to his own home and time.
This is a version of the guide above, but free of spoilers.
Here's all the Planet of the Apes movies, but ordered in which they premiered in cinemas and free of spoilers.
Then maybe you'll like our other movie order viewing guides:
We also have these rumour round-ups on upcoming movies:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1968 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
This article is about the 1968 film. For other uses, see Planet of the Apes (disambiguation) .

February 8, 1968 ( 1968-02-08 ) ( Capitol Theatre )
April 3, 1968 ( 1968-04-03 ) (United States)

Charlton Heston as George Taylor
Roddy McDowall as Dr. Cornelius
Kim Hunter as Dr. Zira
Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius
James Whitmore as President of the Assembly
James Daly as Dr. Honorious
Linda Harrison as Nova
Robert Gunner as Landon
Lou Wagner as Lucius
Woodrow Parfrey as Dr. Maximus
Jeff Burton as Dodge
Buck Kartalian as Julius
Norman Burton as Hunt Leader
Wright King as Dr. Galen
Paul Lambert as Minister
Dianne Stanley as Stewart

^ "Planet of the Apes" . British Board of Film Classification . Archived from the original on December 21, 2014 . Retrieved December 21, 2014 .

^ Jump up to: a b "The Planet of the Apes (1968) – Financial Information" . The Numbers . Archived from the original on December 21, 2014 . Retrieved December 21, 2014 .

^ Webb, Gordon C. (July 1998). "30 Years Later: Rod Serling's Settling the Debate over Who Wrote What, and When" . www.rodserling.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018 . Retrieved August 4, 2007 .

^ Leong, Anthony. "Those Damned Dirty Apes!" . www.mediacircus.net. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019 . Retrieved June 13, 2011 .

^ "Planet of the Apes (1968)" . Box Office Mojo . January 1, 1982. Archived from the original on July 3, 2016 . Retrieved August 18, 2016 .

^ Jump up to: a b Brian Pendreigh (September 7, 2001). "Obituary: John Chambers: Make-up master responsible for Hollywood's finest space-age creatures" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on February 28, 2014 . Retrieved February 27, 2013 .

^ "Planet of the Apes (1968) A Film Review by James Berardinelli" . www.reelviews.net. Archived from the original on February 24, 2021 . Retrieved August 4, 2007 .

^ Jump up to: a b Lussier, Germain (April 14, 2011). "RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Set Visit and Video Blog" . Collider . Archived from the original on March 10, 2015 . Retrieved August 18, 2016 .

^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing" . Library of Congress . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 . Retrieved May 7, 2020 .

^ "Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry" . Library of Congress . Archived from the original on November 15, 2020 . Retrieved May 7, 2020 .

^ Jump up to: a b c American Movie Classics (1998). Behind the Planet of the Apes . Planet of the Apes Blu-Ray: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

^ Hofstede, David (2001). Planet Of The Apes: An Unofficial Companion . ECW Press. p. 8. ISBN 1550224468 .

^ Pulver, Andrew (June 24, 2005). "Monkey business" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on May 18, 2015 . Retrieved May 13, 2015 .

^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Russo, Joe; Landsman, Larry; Gross, Edward (2001). Planet of the Apes Revisited: The Behind-The Scenes Story of the Classic Science Fiction Saga (1st ed.). New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312252390 .

^ Tom Weaver (2010). Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers . McFarland. p. 314. ISBN 978-0786458318 . Archived from the original on June 5, 2021 . Retrieved November 2, 2020 .

^ "Film locations for Planet of the Apes (1968)" . Movie-locations.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2012 . Retrieved August 18, 2016 .

^ "Apes Trivia" . Theforbidden-zone.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 . Retrieved August 18, 2016 .

^ Winogura, Dale (Summer 1972). "Planet of the Apes Issue" (PDF) . Cinefantastique . Retrieved August 31, 2
Stepdaughter Punished
Catsuit Boots
Tongue In Cock Hole

Planet Of The Apps Release Date

Report Page