Preserving the Human in 'Planet of the Apes'

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man. – Sophocles

“Ican’t help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.” So ponders astronaut George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) in the 1968 original Planet of the Apes. Decades later, in an interview promoting Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, co-leads Owen Teague (“Noa”) and Freya Allen (“Mae”) declared they were on “Team Ape” against humanity.

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