THIS stunning visual book takes you behind the scenes during the making of Tim Button's extraordinary film Planet of the Apes-to the director's earliest concept drawings; into story-crafting sessions; inside the costume and makeup shops; on location in Hawaii, Arizona, and the California desert; onto one of Hollywood's biggest soundstages, where Button's creative team built a "City of the Apes" set spanning 3/4 of an acre-and includes detailed cost profiles describing how the actors prepared for their roles. For the ape actors this meant up to six hours in the makeup chair being transformed into the most convincing primates ever seen on screen and attending "ape school" to learn their simian moves.

FOREWORD 7

A Passion Reborn

by Richard D. Zanuck

  INTRODUCTION 9

Mythmaking on Screen

by Tim Burton

RETURN TO THE PLRNET 11

BEFORE THE AMERAS ROLLED 23

CREFITING WORLDS 33

APES AND HUMRNS 51

THE SHOOT 89

WRAPPING UP IN STYLE 111

THE SCREENPLFIY 119

Film Credits 174

Acknowledgments 176