The main shooting began on June 1, 1969, and was completed on August 2. It lasted 31 days, compared with the 41 days of shooting in the previous episode, it was related to the special effects shooting time.
The earth two thousand years later, Colonel George Taylor, and his comrades, the brutal ruler of the planet headed by Dr. Zauis, the kind-hearted and sympathetic ape couple Zi Ruihe Zira and Cornelius and their son Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar), apes, humans.
With the great success of the first film, Flowserve launched the sequel "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" in 1970. The timeline of the film immediately follows the end of the first story, and at the same time it leads to another male. The protagonist-the human astronaut Brent played by James Franciscus. He followed the first signal of Taylor's spacecraft to this planet, and his subsequent encounters were the same as Taylor's, and he saw this evolutionary reversed "orangutan" world. Unlike the first movie, the director used Brent’s perspective to show the dynamic changes in the ape society. Taylor, who appeared in the first movie, made the ape race aware of the threat of human civilization, and the army within the ape race The forces continued to expand, and finally decided to wipe out the remaining forces of mankind through force
. The film shows the survival state of the remaining human beings: living in the underground environment, unrecognizable, but at the same time gaining superpowers through evolution, and the enthusiasm for nuclear weapons has evolved into a religious worship. Eventually, the super Nuclear bomb that humans have preserved for thousands of years is detonated, and humans, apes and even the entire earth are destroyed. However, the Zaius & Cornelius couple who are friendly to humans in this film fled in a spacecraft before the destruction of the earth, which also triggered the third story
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