Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal. It is loosely based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle and serves as a remake of the 1968 film version. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, and Estella Warren. It tells the story of astronaut Leo Davidson (Wahlberg) crash-landing on a planet inhabited by intelligent apes. The apes treat humans as slaves, but with the help of an ape named Ari (Bonham Carter), Leo starts a rebellion.
Plot[]
In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with apes who are trained for space missions. His favorite ape co-worker is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the station, a small space pod piloted by Pericles is used to probe the storm. Pericles's pod heads into the storm and disappears. Leo takes a second pod and finds Pericles. Entering the storm, Leo loses contact with the Oberon and, in 5021 A.D., crashes on a planet called Ashlar. He learns that the world is ruled by humanoid apes who speak English, use domesticated horses for transportation, and treat human beings as slaves.
Leo meets a female chimpanzee named Ari, who protests the mistreatment humans receive. Ari decides to buy Leo and a female slave named Daena to have them work as servants in the house of her father, Senator Sandar. Leo escapes his cage and frees other humans. Limbo, an orangutan trader in captured humans, sees them but is taken prisoner to ensure his silence. The murderous General Thade and his junior, Colonel Attar, march ape warriors to pursue the humans. Leo discovers Calima, the forbidden, but holy temple of "Semos", the first ape whom the apes revere as a god. Calima turns out to be the remains of the Oberon which had crashed on the planet's surface and now looks ancient (the name Calima coming from the sign "CAution LIve aniMAls", the relevant letters being the only ones not covered in dust). According to the computer logs, the station has been there for thousands of years. Leo deduces that when he entered the vortex, he was pushed forward in time, while the Oberon, searching after him, was not, crashing on the planet long before he did.
The Oberon's log reveals that the apes on board, led by Semos, organized a mutiny and took over the vessel after it crashed. The human and ape survivors of the struggle left the ship and their descendants are the people Leo has encountered since landing. The apes arrive and attack the humans who have gathered to see Leo, although he is able to even the odds when he uses the Oberon's last fragments of fuel to fire a final blast at the first wave of apes. The battle stops when a familiar vehicle descends from the sky, which Leo immediately identifies as the pod piloted by Pericles, the chimpanzee astronaut who was pushed forward in time as Leo was and had just now found his way to the planet, the electromagnetic storm actually releasing people from it in an opposite direction in time to their entrance. When Pericles lands and the pod opens, the apes bow, interpreting his arrival as the return of Semos, and hostilities between humans and apes suddenly cease.
Pericles runs into the wreck of the Oberon and Leo runs after him, followed by General Thade. Thade and Leo fight. Pericles tries to help Leo, but Thade throws him hard against a wall. Thade takes Leo's gun from him and tries to fire it at Leo. Leo sees that Thade is within the pilot's deck and closes the automatic door, trapping Thade inside. Thade fires the gun repeatedly at the door but the ricochets create sparks that scare Thade, who huddles under a control panel. Deciding to escape Ashlar and return to Earth, Leo gives Pericles to Ari, who promises to look after him. After saying farewell to Ari and Daena, Leo climbs aboard Pericles's undamaged pod and travels back in time through the same electromagnetic storm, and crashes in Washington, D.C. on Earth. He looks up at what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial, only to find that it is now a monument memorializing General Thade. A swarm of police officers, firefighters, and news reporters descend upon him, revealed to all be apes.
Cast[]
- Mark Wahlberg as Captain Leo Davidson
- Tim Roth as General Thade
- Helena Bonham Carter as Ari
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Attar
- Paul Giamatti as Limbo
- Estella Warren as Daena
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Krull
- David Warner as Sandar
- Kris Kristofferson as Karubi
- Erick Avari as Tival
- Lucas Elliot Eberl as Birn (as Luke Eberl)
- Evan Parke as Gunnar (as Evan Dexter Parke)
- Glenn Shadix as Senator Nado
- Freda Foh Shen as Bon
- Chris Ellis as Commander Karl Vasich
- Anne Ramsay as Lt. Col. Grace Alexander
- Andrea Grano as Major Maria Cooper
- Michael Jace as Major Frank Santos
- Michael Wiseman as Specialist Hansen
- Lisa Marie as Nova
- Eileen Weisinger as Leeta
- Deep Roy as Gorilla Kid/Thade's Niece
- Chad Bannon as Red Ape Soldier/Man Hunt Ape
- Kevin Grevioux as Limbo's 1st Handler/Ape Commander/2nd Ape Soldier
- Isaac C. Singleton Jr. as Limbo's 2nd Handler/1st Ape Soldier
- Quincy Taylor as Ape Soldier
- John Alexander as Ape Dinner Guest/Old Man Servant/Old Ape #1
- Jay Caputo as 1st Ape Teenager/Marduk
- Philip Tan as 2nd Ape Teenager/Gossiping Male Ape
- Callie Croughwell as Little Human Girl
- Allie Habberstad as Girl Pet
- Brett Smrz as Human Kid #1
- Howard Berger as Gorilla
- Rick Baker as Old Ape #2
- Cameron Croughwell as Ape Soccer Kid
- Joshua Croughwell as Ape Soccer Kid
- Hannah Peitzman Myers as Ape Soccer Kid (as Hannah Peitzman)
- Molly Peitzman as Ape Soccer Kid
- Jesse Tipton as Ape Soccer Kid
- Shane Habberstad as Ape Soccer Kid
- Chet Zar as Fruit Vendor
- Linda Harrison as Woman in Cart
- Eddie Adams as Friend at Leo's Party
- Todd Babcock as Friend at Leo's Party
- Lorenzo Callender as Friend at Leo's Party
- Shonda Farr as Friend at Leo's Party
- Kam Heskin as Friend at Leo's Party
- Jim Holmes as Friend at Leo's Party
- Todd Kimsey as Friend at Leo's Party
- Candace Kroslak as Friend at Leo's Party
- Joanna Krupa as Friend at Leo's Party
- Elizabeth Lackey as Friend at Leo's Party
- Mark Christopher Lawrence as Friend at Leo's Party
- Melody Perkins as Friend at Leo's Party
- Tate Taylor as Friend at Leo's Party
- Jonna Giovanna as Friend at Leo's Party (as Jonna Thompson)
Uncredited[]
- Greg Anthony as Chimp
- Craig Appel as Ape Warrior
- Jon Braver as Ape
- Spitfire Brown as Ape Warrior #7
- Paul Bunnell as Red Army Chimp
- Adam Carrera as Human Slave
- Jeffrey Clark as Extra
- Toby Cockerell as Ape Warrior
- Johnny Drocco as Orangutan
- Dragon Dronet as Red Army Gorilla #2
- Patrick Coleman Duncan as Orangutan with Briefcase
- Patricia Eskenazi as Female Chimp
- Orlando Estrada as Red Army Chimp #2
- Ronald Gamble as Red Army Gorilla Soldier
- Jon Gourley as Ape
- Glen Hambly as Human Survivor
- Leigh Hennessy as Homeless Woman
- Charlton Heston as Zaius
- Troy Higgins as Human Slave
- Ben Hisoler as Orangutan
- James Hunter as Orangutan
- Marc Joseph as Red Army Chimp
- Dennis Keiffer as Red Army Chimp/Red Army Gorilla
- Martin Klebba as Monkey Grinder's Pet
- Jesse Kristofferson as Starving Human
- Eric Lichtenberg as Red Army Chimp
- Joseph Lint as Gorilla Soldier
- Jon Miller as Human
- Irene Nester as Red Ape Army Chimpanzee
- Daren Palacio as Ape Warrior
- Bennato Pennella as Friend at Leo's Party
- Argenis Pirela as Chimpanzee
- Dana Schick as Human
- Tim Sitarz as Human
- Tiffany Smith as Thade's Sister
- Nils Allen Stewart as Scar
- Serenity Allinder Velasco Valle as Ape in the Army
Production[]
Development[]
Filming[]
Music[]
- Main article: Planet of the Apes (soundtrack)
Reception[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- This was the sixth installment in the Planet of the Apes film series.
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