Planet of the Apes is one of the most iconic sci-fi franchises of all time, dating back to the original groundbreaking film from 1968. In the years after the first movie, four sequels were produced, although they didn’t garner the same reputation as the original. Still, the iconic nature of the premise, in which apes are now the dominant species with humans in cages and unable to speak, still holds up the franchise and makes it an interesting story to continually come back to.