Useless Movie Trivia For
Planet of the Apes
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Memorable Movie Quotes
Attar: Get your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!
Limbo: Can't we all just get along?
Captain Leo Davidson: Never send a monkey to do a man's job.
Captain Leo Davidson: Shut up! That goes for all species.
Ari: It's disgusting the way we treat humans.
General Thade: Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist!
Trivia
Mark Wahlberg joined the film after meeting with Tim Burton for only five minutes. He was so anxious to work with the director that he agreed to play any part. Wahlberg dropped out of the role of Linus in Ocean's Eleven (2001) to do this film. He refused to wear a loincloth like Charlton Heston did in Planet of the Apes (1968) because he did not want to remind audiences of his underwear modeling.
Michael Clarke Duncan had sprained his ankle during filming and was forced to go to the hospital in his full gorilla makeup.
Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan) says to Captain Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg), "Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!" mirroring the original line from George Taylor (Charlton Heston) ("Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!")
Charlton Heston, star of Planet of the Apes (1968) as well as National Rifle Association President, is the only ape with a gun. He passes the gun to his son Thade, while he dies speaking the line "Damn them! Damn them all to hell!", a variation of his character's last lines in the original: "Damn you! God damn you all to hell!". Tim Roth, a vocal supporter of gun control, was originally uncomfortable with this pro-gun scene. But Tim Burton persuaded him, and Roth "decided that it was okay because it's fiction."
The starship Oberon is named after a selfish faerie king of immense power in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Thade is based on Hideki Tojo, the Japanese Minister of War who decided to go to war with the United States in 1941.
In the space of 33 years since the original adaptation, the budget multiplied almost twenty-fold.
Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison are the only actors to appear in both this film and the 1968 original version.
It was after this movie wrapped that director Tim Burton and leading lady Helena Bonham Carter became romantically involved. Instead of moving in with her in her Hampstead home in London, Burton bought two next-door houses.
Linda Harrison Harrison, who played Nova in the original film, plays one of the humans in the rolling cage that takes 'Mark Wahlberg''s character to Ape City. She is the woman next to him who shakes her head "no" when Wahlberg speaks.
Goofs
As Leo begins to enter the water with Ari on his back, she puts her hands over his face. In the next shot from further across the water, they are by his side. The hands return over his face once they are in the water.
After the group cross the river, they set up camp and make fires. They are in the middle of the desert and there are no trees as far as the horizon. Where did they get the firewood?
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $100,000,000
Opening Weekend: $68,532,960
Gross: $180,011,740
Filming Locations
USA
Australia
Hawaii, USA
Lake Powell, Utah, USA
Los Angeles Center Studios - 450 S. Bixel Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA (studio)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Page, Arizona, USA
Ridgecrest, California, USA
Santa Clarita, California, USA
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Trona Pinnacles - 300 S. Richmond Road, Ridgecrest, California, USA
Washington, District of Columbia, USA