Sci Fi Month continues on The Projection Booth with a look at Gary Nelson’s 1979 film, The Black Hole. It’s the story of a group of astronauts who, after an unscheduled course correction, run across the missing ship The Cygnus, which is in stasis just outside of a black hole. It’s something of a re-telling of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Maximilian Schell playing Captain Nemo by way of Dr. Hans Reinhardt.
Sci-Fi Month continues with a look at the landmark 1968 film Planet of the Apes. Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, it’s the story of a quartet of astronauts who arrive on a strange planet where three species of apes -- Orangutans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas -- are the ruling species while bands of mute, primitive humans hide in the forests, occasionally stealing the apes’ crops, and generally being a nuisance.
Richard Hatem and Edward G. Pettit join Mike to discuss the original quintet of films, the Tim Burton misfire, and the more recent trilogy.