The film-makers: Producer Arthur Jacobs bought the film rights before Monkey Planet's publication but struggled to find money until Charlton Heston, then a huge box-office draw, became involved. The final twist: the beings who pick up the original canister are revealed to be chimpanzees. Mérou returns to Earth, arriving 700 years after he left, only to find that apes have ousted humans there too. Mérou becomes the subject of their experiments he is befriended, however, by a chimpanzee scientist, Zira, who aids him in proving his credentials as an intelligent being. There he encounters a tribe of primitive human-type beings, but is then captured by Soror's overlords - intelligent apes. A manuscript is discovered in a canister floating in deep space - it is journalist Ulysse Mérou's report of a trip to Soror, an Earth-like planet in orbit around Betelgeuse. Story: Monkey Planet was reputedly inspired by a visit Boulle made to a zoo, though it is possible to see it as an allegory for wartime attitudes toward racial divisions.
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