Editing Planet of the Apes (section)

==Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes==
In 2001, a remake of Planet of the Apes was produced by director Tim Burton. This version was highly controversial, both for the major plot changes - setting the Planet of the Apes on an actual alien world that had been occupied by the mutated descendants of a crashed space colony, first and foremost, followed by presenting humans as intelligent but enslaved - and for the [[furry|bizarrely sexual depiction of the female apes]], with many complaining that there was more romantic subtext between the human lead Leo and the female ape Ari than there is between him and female human lead Daena. Now, the alien planet bit and even the hinted interspecies attraction actually stems from the books, but not many people remember the books because the original 1968 film overshadowed them.

The end result was that this film ''bombed'' and it killed off interest in a continued Planet of the Apes... until...