一艘出发自二十世纪的宇宙飞船经过6个月的近光速飞行，相当于经历了七百年时间，船长泰勒顿设定自动飞行状态后，飞船最终坠落在公元3978年的一颗陌生星球上。泰勒和两名幸存队员发现该星球与地球环境相当，而且竟然存在没有语言能力靠采集为生的人类，不待泰勒进行进一步的考察，一群具有智能的人猿突然出现将一众人类捕获。原来这颗星球的主人是人猿，人类只不过是供他们捕猎研究的野兽，人猿博士基拉和男友康奈利分别进行着人类行为学和人猿历史的研究，喉部受伤的泰勒暂时失去语言能力，但他的沟通行为很快引起了基拉的注意，在顽固的人猿学术界引发了争议。一直设法争取自由的泰勒不久终于发现了人猿星球的真相。

一艘出发自二十世纪的宇宙飞船经过6个月的近光速飞行，相当于经历了七百年时间，船长泰勒（查尔登•海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰）设定自动飞行状态后，飞船最终坠落在公元3978年的一颗陌生星球上。泰勒和两名幸存队员发现该星球与地球环境相当，而且竟然存在没有语言能力靠采集为生的人类，不待泰勒进行进一步的考察，一群具有智能的人猿突然出现将一众人类捕获。原来这颗星球的主人是人猿，人类只不过是供他们捕猎研究的野兽，人猿博士基拉（金•亨特 Kim Hunter 饰）和男友康奈利分别进行着人...

三名美国宇航员在宇航船失事后跌落到某个星球，在那里大猩猩是主宰世界的高级动物，而人则是低等动物，既不会说话，也没有思想。宇航员的来到在猩猩世界激起千层浪，有的开明猩猩看到了等级制的不平等，有些则固守己见，不顾一切维护现有的体制。

Planet of the Apes was a short-lived American science fiction television series that aired on Friday evenings at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on CBS in 1974. The series starred Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, and James Naughton, Mark Lenard and Booth Colman. It was based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels in which McDowall also starred.

Return to the Planet of the Apes is a short-lived animated series, by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television, based upon Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel had previously been adapted in a series of movies, beginning with the 1968 Planet of the Apes starring Charlton Heston. Unlike the film, its sequels, and the 1974 live-action television series, which involved a primitive ape civilization, Return to the Planet of the Apes depicted a technologically advanced society, complete with automobiles, film, and television; as such it more closely resembled both Boulle's original novel and early concepts for the first Apes movie which were changed due to budgetary limitations in the late 1960s.

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

In 2019, after his three Maze Runner films grossed nearly $1 billion on a $156 million spend, Ball was days away from production on 20th Century Fox’s Mouse Guard adaptation, but then the Disney-Fox merger abruptly canceled his ambitious mocap-centric project that counted Reeves and Serkis as producer and actor, respectively. However, later that year, Ball got a call from 20th’s longtime president of production, Emma Watts, which he believes was her way to make amends for Mouse Guard’s collapse. 　　“Yeah, that’s probably what it was … Emma Watts called me and said, ‘Sorry about the Mouse Guard thing, but what would you do with the next Planet of the Apes?’” Ball tells The Hollywood Reporter. “So it took me a minute to get my head around that idea. I wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do until we found our way into something that I thought was worthy of following up the previous three.” 　　Ball’s way into a new potential trilogy began with the aforementioned time jump where different clans of apes now reside in their own villages, including the Eagle Clan and their sheltered yet serene existence alongside their loyal eagle companions. Noa (Owen Teague), a sensitive young chimpanzee, is on the verge of adulthood within the Eagle Clan when Proximus Caesar’s (Kevin Durand) coastal clan of hostile apes pillages his family’s community, forcing him to go on a journey where he finally learns about the real world and who the real Caesar was from the learned orangutan, Raka (Peter Macon), and who he wasn’t from the power-hungry bonobo, Proximus. 　　The kicker is that Noa also encounters a seemingly feral human, but she’s really an intelligent young woman named Mae (Freya Allan), establishing that this new potential trilogy won’t be an ape story that resets its human cast with each movie like the prior trilogy of the 2010s.

In 2019, after his three Maze Runner films grossed nearly $1 billion on a $156 million spend, Ball was days away from production on 20th Century Fox’s Mouse Guard adaptation, but then the Disney-Fox merger abruptly canceled his ambitious mocap-centric project that counted Reeves and Serkis as producer and actor, respectively. However, later that year, Ball got a call from 20th’s longtime president of production, Emma Watts, which he believes was her way to make amends for Mouse Guard’s collapse. 　　“Yeah, that’s probably what it was … Emma Watts called me and said, ‘Sorry about the Mouse Guard thing, but what would you do with the next Planet of the Apes?’” Ball tells The Hollywood Reporter. “So it took me a minute to get my head around that idea. I wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do until we found our way into something that I thought was worthy of following up the previous three.” 　　Ball’s way into a new potential trilogy began with the aforementioned time jump where different clans of apes now reside in their own villages, including the Eagle Clan and their sheltered yet serene existence alongside their loyal eagle companions. Noa (Owen Teague), a sensitive young chimpanzee, is on the verge of adulthood within the Eagle Clan when Proximus Caesar’s (Kevin Durand) coastal clan of hostile apes pillages his family’s community, forcing him to go on a journey where he finally learns about the real world and who the real Caesar was from the learned orangutan, Raka (Peter Macon), and who he wasn’t from the power-hungry bonobo, Proximus. 　　The kicker is that Noa also encounters a seemingly feral human, but she’s really an intelligent young woman named Mae (Freya Allan), establishing that this new potential trilogy won’t be an ape story that resets its human cast with each movie like the prior trilogy of the 2010s.

1968年 乔治的飞船误入两千年后的地球并失事，在善良的猿族 夫妇兹瑞和考尼斯的帮助下，他逃出了猿族的监牢，但猿族首领佐斯博士并没打算放过他。1970年前来搜寻乔治的飞船再次失事在星球上新加入的战友和乔治联手去阻止猿族对人类的杀戮。

1968年 乔治的飞船误入两千年后的地球并失事，在善良的猿族 夫妇兹瑞和考尼斯的帮助下，他逃出了猿族的监牢，但猿族首领佐斯博士并没打算放过他。1970年前来搜寻乔治的飞船再次失事在星球上新加入的战友和乔治联手去阻止猿族对人类的杀戮。