Wasnt there a guy plugging his Pota location book here not so long ago?
...a guy plugging?... Yeah, dat me!
My new book Location! Location! Location! (thru www.PithikosEntertainment.com) is a unique perspective on the making of Franklin J. Schaffner's Planet of the Apes: I geolocated, trekked and stood on each and every location in the remote badlands of Utah and Arizona—not just areas in general, but dozens of impossible-to-reach filming locations and precise camera positions. You could describe it as hands-on research!
At one very famous Apes location in Utah—the Scarecrows—I found that no one had set foot on it since the crew left in June 1967 and discovered the actual props were still there! There's a wealth of 150+ color pictures and new research in Location! Location! Location! you won't find in Mr. Rinzler's book.
While Mr. Rinzler's Making of Apes book is a nice coffee table book full of pretty pictures (which seems to be the point of the book), most of the research included in the book's narrative is poached from Joe Russo and Larry Landsman's ground-breaking Planet of the Apes Revisited (pub. 2001) and my own Simians & Serialism (pub. 2015)—and neither book is properly footnoted or acknowledged. It's also obvious to me he's never actually visited the Utah/Arizona locations—they're wrongly identified and described in the book which is misleading to Apes fans and the starting point for more inaccurate “legends.”
BTW @BillCarson, “a guy plugging” is an interesting—if a bit sideways kind of characterization of typical FSM message board Product PR topic. Has anyone described Intrada's Douglass Fake, or La La Land's MV Gerhard or Varese Sarabande's Robert Townson as “a guy plugging” their products here on the FSM message board...?
