Planet of the Apes: George Taylor's Command Module

[scud1962]

Earth time prior to re-entry you damn dirty ape!

[scud1962]

Make sure you have it ready by 04-27-2012!

[luhisslukus]

@scud1962 What's on 4-27????

[crossfranky]

Exelent!!! job congratulations

[scifyjunkie]

the ship also appears in the illustrated man, the segment it appears in was based on a short story by Ray Bradbury called the long rain. I believe that it was used because it was already constructed, and it fit the vague description of the ship from the story.

[scifyjunkie]

i have always believed taylor's ship was just a re-entry module. the booster, and oter equipment modules were jettisoned prior to re-entry. but in the second film, there was more of an aft structure on brent's ship.

[terryjohn]

@scifyjunkie it his...return mod.

[Celeon999A]

The one big problem with the original model in the film was that it was much too small.

The interior set shown in the beginning of the first movie is bigger than the whole model used for the exterior scenes :-D

Thats a common space ship model problem in many old sci-fi movies. Propably a cost related issue which was considered unimportant enough to be a little sloppy with it. :-)

I would call this the Dr.Who effect. Bigger on the inside ;-)

[luhisslukus]

@Celeon999A - I'm actually in the process of building the interior (been going on quite some time.. wish I had more time. Let's see if I can squeeze it in :)

[terryjohn]

@luhisslukus let's see it..

[terryjohn]

@Celeon999A was the same ship used in the 2rd-??

[Celeon999A]

@terryjohn

Not sure. Propably not. The one in the second was all smashed and burned as it made a crash landing and there were only certain pieces of it visible in a handful of scenes.

[marcusbondi]

wow - awesome.

[gabydewilde]

like the first cars it is probably more aerodynamic flying backwards

[Cosmicorigins]

Nice work! I ahve to design a spacecraft similar to this style and build the actaul miniature for an indie film maker. I still have always wondered what the rest of this ship woul dhave looked like. It was probably a rocket of some type since rockets were (and still are) all we have.

[luhisslukus]

@Cosmicorigins: Would love to see some pics!

[NJburbsSeeker]

Nice 3D work. Actually that design is similar to things they're working on now for the next generation. Hopefully the exploration end will go a little smoother.

[granddad2002]

I miss those movie designs. I wish they could make a 'special' edition and show lift-off and everything into 'Taylor's last log entry'? It would be a Apollo 13/ Forrest Gump technical manipulation. Maybe Ron Howard should have done the 'Planet of The Apes' re-make?

[blacktheknife]

Wow! No wonder Taylor was such a sarcastic smart-ass skipper: he was cooped-up in this tin can! I mean, where's room for a bathroom--let alone stretchout space? "...Six months in deep space..." in this? The 3D mock-up literally assumes the nosecone was the enitre ship. There had to be more ship--WAY MORE-- below the water if this was a serious interstellar mission (especially one travelling at "nearly the speed of light").

[Arizno3000]

@blacktheknife Not really, in theory you are correct. he would need way more than that, but remember he landed on earth.

[smilesabbi]

I held the small scale model prop, not the actual big ship----just to clarfy and avoid all the "FAKE"s that would follow. I also worked with the ROTJ Death Star, Grandpa Munsters' casket hot rod (Dragula?), and POTA costumes, and much more.

[smilesabbi]

Great! I held the original in my arms (it was a fiberglass shell and probably from the TV series). About a meter, meter and a half, or so, long.

[xmenfan5]

love it!:D

[vvidavici]

Search: Planet Of The Apes ANSA Public Service. That's the official film where they name the ship as the Liberty-1.

[vvidavici]

There's an official press release film that I found on here where they give the back story of the full crew and their mission and they state the name if the ship is actually the Liberty 1. You can find it here by doing a Planet Of The Apes Search.

[fucheduck]

I (tried) to make one with an extended rear end(like the Beneath model) took weeks and a "renovative" appartment manager to thwart that project.(ICARUS, falls in water burns in tile project #3)

[vvidavici]

Just found out the the ship was actually called the Liberty-1.

[fucheduck]

@vvidavici where was this? it sure isn't a "Freedodm" vessel, in irony.

[infidelpuppy]

The Icarus!  Beautiful.

[rickdangerwood]

goddamn you all to hell!

[crookedspokeadjacent]

hmmm im surprised that we're somehow running out of ideas and doing multiple remakes for science fiction movies.... i mean jesus christ go down to Bargain Books and scoop up a handful from the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section. itd be a great source of new ideas, and im sure any two-bit author would be thrilled at the prospect (i would be). sure, alot of those books are trash... but it doesnt matter u can make A+ movie from C- book and vice versa

[Setebos]

@crookedspokeadjacent --- I'm with you on that 100%. There're hundreds of great books out there just waiting to be filmed.

[bedank]

Very cool looking spaceship, way ahead of its time and so much better than the others of that time (Enterprise, 2001,).

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

nice

[spinners123]

future plans of space shuttle

[Neville6000]

This ship look a lot like the Narcissus from Alien.

[luhisslukus]

Oh interesting.. you got a point there!

[InfiniteWhizBang]

Nifty!!

[wheelinthesky300]

One of the coolest spaceships ever.

[reticulan5]

Fox (not just Irwin Allen) re-used everything.You will see the same computers and props for Fantastic Voyage,Lost in space,Batman,Green Hornet , Voyage,Time Tunnel etc right upto the 80s,Same with all the other studiosMartian War machines from War of the Worlds in Robinson Crusoe on Mars and Forbidden Planets Space ship and Robby the Robot in everything thing MGM did in sci-fi afterwards.(Invisible Boy,Twilight Zone etc)

[decidedvoter08]

Fantastic!

[CaptainNomura]

Nice job. There's a great "blueprint" of the ship, the original sketch version with four engine nozzles and the constructed version. I always wanted to build one, so did my friend who's a bigger fan but it's 40 feet long!

[vilatge]

planet of the apes .

de l"écrivain: Pierre Boulle

[ursa41]

Interesting!!! I always wanted to see the Icarus spacecraft in its entirety. Excellent job,luhisslukus, and many thanks for posting!

[theapesarchive]

GREAT STUFF!

[pubbies]

Good job!

[obbierayukacslay]

what was it doing in the illustrated man

[slagit]

Nice job if you the one posting produced this model!

[mpshields]

This was never to be used as a command module.

This piece was constructed as the nose sticking out of the water.

There never was a plan for a second movie. Then due to poor budget this nose piece was used to house three apes.

[scotpens]

Actually the spaceship used in "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" and also in the TV series was a second mockup. It's noticeably shorter than the first one and also has mysteriously acquired a hatch just behind the portside window.

[johntwentythree]

Its actually the same one but was modified. If you search 'spaceship icarus' there is a good site with pics of it at universals lot.

[scotpens]

If you mean Phil Broad's website, cloudster-dot-com, I'm quite familiar with it and it's an excellent reference source for all sorts of science-fiction movie hardware. I thought I remembered reading somewhere about a second Icarus mockup, but apparently I was wrong.

The "Apes" movies and TV series were made at 20th Century Fox, not Universal. And the spaceship also appeared briefly in "The Illustrated Man" starring Rod Steiger.