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Pierre Boulle: The spy who invented ‘Planet of the Apes,’ a world with intelligent gorillas and humans with lazy brains
The French writer and soldier, who also penned ‘The Bridge over the River Kwai,’ didn’t think that his portrait of a society in ruins would work well on screen. We are into the 10th film in the franchise