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R.I.P. Charlton Heston
If you hadn't heard the news by now, Charlton Heston passed away Saturday night at the grand old age of 84. His broad-shouldered, square-jawed, teeth-gritting acting style launched historical characters from Moses to Judah Ben-Hur, but we were more fixated on his body of science fiction work, which was considerable as you can see from our breakdown. Hopefully people around the world will be shouting "Get your stinking paws off me!" or "Soylent Green is people!" as a sign of mourning.
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The Speckled SciFi Career of Charlton Heston
Long before Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968's The Planet of the Apes. The success of this film led Heston into other, equally cheesy, scifi movies. Take a tour of his late 1960s/early 70s flirtation with scifi after the jump, including his own take on I Am Legend. More »
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You probably have some vague notion that the new Will Smith viral apocalypse flick I Am Legend is based on another movie from 1971 called Omega Man. But actually both of those movies were based on a dark, angry book called I Am Legend, published in 1954 by Richard Matheson. And before Charlton Heston gunned down white-faced cultists with his blaxploitation honey on a motorcycle, there was another long-forgotten movie version of Mathesons' book whose grim quietness may have influenced I Am Legend more than Omega. There are some strange twists in I Am Legend's half-century of history after the jump.
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The Twisted History of I Am Legend
You probably have some vague notion that the new Will Smith viral apocalypse flick I Am Legend is based on another movie from 1971 called Omega Man. But actually both of those movies were based on a dark, angry book called I Am Legend, published in 1954 by Richard Matheson. And before Charlton Heston gunned down white-faced cultists with his blaxploitation honey on a motorcycle, there was another long-forgotten movie version of Mathesons' book whose grim quietness may have influenced I Am Legend more than Omega. There are some strange twists in I Am Legend's half-century of history after the jump.
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Must See: Planet of the Apes
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Planet of the Apes
Date: 1968
Vitals: Astronaut Charlton Heston returns from a deep space mission and crash-lands on a crazy planet of ... Apes! Pierre Boulle's satirical French novel got a big-screen adaptation from Rod Serling, and a re-write from Blacklist victim Michael Wilson — making for one of the weirdest, hokiest, but nonetheless compelling sci-fi epics of all time. ... More »
