Escape from the Planet of the Apes

[johnmiic]

I give the explanation a pass because it's not believable. If Brent's ship had just landed safely and was ready for takeoff I could accept them hitting a wrong button and launching in return mode. It's still too much like Far Out Space Nuts but you don't have to explain they "fixed" one of the previous ships that crashed.

This website offers some tantalizing omissions from the movie's script as well as insights into the spaccraft:

http://www.goingfaster.com/icarus/background.html

More info on the ship:

http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/ApesShip/PofA01.html

I hear that a copy of the original model miniature, (unfilmed in the movies I think), is in the Planet Hollywood club in Orlando Florida. Anyone can confirm this?

[megoapesnut]

You basically need to accept it and move on.

BINGO! Give that man a Ceeeegar!

[Wasimhosen]

Probably the saddest most brutal ending to any movie.

[ironman1188]

Here's how I would have done the movie to make it more paletable to the average geek (like me)

Movie starts right before the old movie ended (pre bomb explosion)

We see the events leading up to the bomb

Mix that with new scenes of Zira and Corney

Finally with clever filmwork make it known the bomb explosion made a timewarp and it sucked in Zira and Corney.

Milo is not needed

The average geek has watched the film and moved on.
The bomb making a time warp would cause people to ask what exploded in the first film to make the warp that Taylor went thru.
Milo is needed because he was the "nerd" chimp with the brains to, at least partially, figure out how the ship worked.
As for most of the flying I always figured they had an auto pilot function on the ship.

[Mikey]

One advantage of the original shown version ...

If it wasn't for the original shown version we would never get the classic astronaut helmet removal scene.

This scene is probably only second in iconic Apes scenes only after the Statue of Liberty.

Shame it was used (and wasted) at the start of the movie.

[Nostalgiabuff]

there is a book out called Conspiracy on the Planet of the Apes which explains how Milo fixed the ship and they got out. pretty good read. also deals with Landon and what was going on with him during the events of the movie. if you really want to know.

[ironman1188]

Yes, and it is "official" so its as close to canon as it can be.

[ctc]

>You basically need to accept it and move on.

Repeat to yourself "It's just a show, I should really just relax."

Don C.

[babycyclops]

Isn't the ship that lands on Earth with Zira, Corny and Milo an Apollo or Mercury type capsule, while Taylor and Brent's ships are a futuristic design?

[Nostalgiabuff]

no, it was the same ship design Taylor had