Reeves of the Planet of the Apes.

Anything to keep the evil lord Xenu at bay!

He’s got his stinkin’ paws all over it!

We’ve heard of swapping football stickers, but… films?

“They finally made a monkey out of hiiiiiim!”

That title doesn’t really work, does it?

43 years on from Charlton Heston’s first encounter with a society of talking apes, this origin story finally explains exactly why monkeys started wearing helmets. And what a story it is. Unknown director Rupert Wyatt has effortlessly gold-plated his CV with this intelligent and engaging blockbuster, which may well see Andy Serkis win the first ever Oscar awarded for a motion capture performance. A triumph.

Since the dawn of cinema, it has become the standard for any successful novel to make the transition from text to film. This is something that many purists distain saying that it taints the original and eventually make it obsolete (despite the fact that a successful movie will, in almost all cases, raise sales on the original novel). Literary critique aside it has to be said that some of the best movies ever made are adaptations of novels, and as such we have compiled a top ten list of the best adaptations from Sci-Fi/ Fantasy literature to film.

It’s basically a zombie movie… with monkeys.

The first photograph to emerge from the film set of Rise of the Apes has made its way online.