Is it true that Planet of the Apes was written by Rod Serling?
Yes, the screenplay for the first film was written by Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone. In fact, the storyline for Planet could almost be a two-hour episode of Sterling’s famous show. Sterling also submitted several story ideas for the sequel, but all of them were rejected by the studio (see the Starlog article, “Planet of the Apes Revisited”). • Whatever happened to Linda Harrison, the girl who played Nova? While most of the Apes actors went on to, or continued in, distinguished careers, Linda Harrison seemed to just disappear. Actually, at the time Planet was produced, she was married to Fox chief Richard Zanuck, son of famed mogul Darryl Zanuck. After the Apes films, she went on to do a TV series and was almost cast as the wife of Chief Brody in Jaws (see Apes Trivia). Around this time, Harrison took a break from acting to raise her children she had with Zanuck. Some time later, they were divorced, but she continues to make occassional appearances in films he produces with
