Do Not Disturb: Game of Thrones Season 3 Binge Continues...

Tonight, Discs 2 thru 4

(including commentaries and features)
Diana Rigg (Mrs Peel/Mrs James Bond) commentary on Disc 2!

Do Not Disturb: Game of Thrones Season 3 Binge in Progress...

Tonight, Disc 1

(including commentaries and features)

Reading Room MONKEY PLANET "Conclusion"

We Have Already Seen...

The diary of Ulysse Merou, journalist with an interstellar expedition from Earth, is found floating in space by other astronauts.

It recounts how the team landed on a planet in the Betelgeuse system discovering both primitive humans and a society of intelligent apes utilizing technology equal to late 20th Century Earth!

Captured by the simians, Merou manages to demonstrate his intelligence, becoming something of a curioisity and celebrity in Ape society...

Written and illustrated by Ernő Zórád, this 1981 Hungarian one-shot adaptation of the original French novel by Pierre Boule has never been officially-published in English.

But, thanks to the fine work of Kyriee (Scans), Swatura Od (translation) and Avoros (scripting), we're finally able to understand this tale in English.

In the 1966 first drafts (and pre-production) of the movie, the plan was to follow the book's premise closer...

...as seen in this 1966 promo reel with an early makeup test featuring Edward G Robinson as Zaius, James Brolin as Cornelius, and Linda Harrison (who played Nova in the first two movies) as Zira!
BTW, the "stock music" is by John Williams from the Lost in Space tv series!

Reading Room MONKEY PLANET "Part 2"

When Last We Left Our Stranded Protaganist...

Cover of 1st British hardcover edition

The diary of Ulysse Merou, journalist with an interstellar expedition from Earth, is found floating in space by other astronauts.

It recounts how the team landed on a planet in the Betelgeuse system discovering both primitive humans and a society of intelligent apes utilizing technology equal to late 20th Century Earth!

Captured by the simians, who don't realize he's not one of their primitive humans, Merou is taken to a major metropolis...

To be concluded tomorrow...

Written and illustrated by Ernő Zórád, this 1981 Hungarian one-shot adaptation of the original French novel by Pierre Boule has never been officially-published in English.

But, thanks to the fine work of Kyriee (Scans), Swatura Od (translation) and Avoros (scripting), we're finally able to understand this tale in English.

Thanks, guys.

Reading Room MONKEY PLANET "Part 1"

There have been numerous comic adaptations of the Planet of the Apes movies...

...and even the short-lived tv series, as we've shown HERE, but there had never been a graphic novel version of the original novel, which is quite different from any of the live or animated adventures in English!

To be continued tomorrow...

Written and illustrated by Ernő Zórád, this 1981 Hungarian one-shot adaptation of the original French novel by Pierre Boule has never been officially-published in English.

But, thanks to the fine work of Kyriee (Scans), Swatura Od (translation) and Avoros (scripting), we're finally able to understand this tale in English.

Thanks, guys.

BTW, both the 1970s animated series and the 2001 remake took more elements from the book than the 1960s-70s films or the recent reboot movie series.