Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes, that were both made into award-winning films.

La Planète des singes, published in English as Planet of the Apes in the U.S. and Monkey Planet in the UK, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle. It was adapted into the 1968