Planet of the Apes, a legacy of movies, television, animation, and comic books that began with Monkey Planet, a novel written by Pierre Boulle in 1963 continues to be popular in 2011 as a new movie,
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is about to be released. What is the continuing popularity of this series? Is now the right time for a new movie? And why a prequel to the unpopular 2001 Tim Burton movie? Authors Dayton Ward and Roger Alford join John to discuss this and more in this Roundtable episode.
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Roundtable - Planet of the Apes
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Dayton Ward is the author of numerous media tie-in fiction works in such realms as Star Trek and The 4400. He is also the author of such original works as Counterstrike, The Last World War, Book 2 and The Genesis Protocol. When he's not writing or working for a software design firm, he's busy indoctrinating his two lovely daughters into the worlds that have so seriously warped his mind.
Roger Alford is the webmaster for The Forbidden Zone, a resource devoted to The Planet of the Apes with everything from the original novel to updates on the latest Apes movie. In addition, Roger is the author of The Black Spectre, a series of pulp fiction stories featuring the title character.
