![]() The film was a box-office hit, earning a lifetime domestic gross of $33.3 million. ![]() Planet of the Apes premiered on February 8, 1968, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City, and was released in the United States on April 3, by 20th Century Fox. The film's final "closed" cost was $5.8 million. Filming took place between May 21 and August 10, 1967, in California, Utah, and Arizona, with desert sequences shot in and around Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Schaffner's changes included an ape society less advanced-and therefore less expensive to depict-than that of the original novel. Jacobs, upon the recommendation of Heston, chose Franklin J. Lee Thompson and Blake Edwards were approached, but the film's producer Arthur P. The outline Planet of the Apes script, originally written by Serling, underwent many rewrites before filming eventually began.
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