Don Peters was an illustrator and artist who created concept art for the original Planet of the Apes movie in the mid-1960s. Film producer Arthur P. Jacobs secured the rights to La Planète des singes after reading Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel. He immediately set about turning the idea into a viable movie adaptation. He commissioned artists to produce a series of paintings and sketches inspired by the novel, to be used as a visual basis for the movie, later recalling, "I had sketches made, and went through six sets of artists to get the concept, but none of them were right. Finally, I hit on a seventh one, and said that's how it should look." Associate producer Mort Abrahams remembered Jacobs assembling a huge 'merchandising book' with 130 pages of ideas to pitch the movie to film studios. Do