>>217777968
Yeah, this is pretty much the most downer path they could have taken.

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>we wuz psychics n shiet

The original film was a hit out of nowhere and they didn't have a novel to adapt so they just made something up. Charlton Heston didn't want to do more films so he only did it if he could be in it as little as possible and they definitively ended it.

yes, it's stupid.

They should have done a Rome vs. Carthage angle with two city states going to war with each other. Humans that Charlton Heston founded would create their own Carthage, and the Ape Cato the Elder wants war.

>humans survived and they're more advanced now

This is the dumbest angle they could have gone for. Oh and their normal appearance is due to skin suits. They're actually all horrifically burned.

>>217777968
It's pulpy 70s sci-fi kino

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>>217778174
This is the correct take

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Quaint to think that, prior to Star Wars, PotA was probably the biggest sci-fi franchise

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>>217778132
Heston said he'd come back to get killed at the beginning, they talked him into coming back at the end and agreed only if he pushed the button on a doomsday bomb. This should have led to another round of negotiations ("How about Taylor sacrifices himself so the others can escape, and it's just a regular bomb?") BUT the movie exec in charge was getting fired so as a fuck you to the studio he basically took Heston's demand that Taylor nuke the world at the end and ran with it to deliberately sabotage the film.

The really sad part was that Serling wrote a treatment for a sequel and it was expanded on by Dehn. Instead of the world being nuked the astronauts escape as the underground collapses killing the mutants and the gorilla army. They go back to ape city and the Chimps take over since most of the gorillas are gone. Flash ahead several years where apes and humans coexist and then at the end back in the forbidden zone a collapsed cave entrance explodes and an army of mutant/gorilla hybrids march out with war machines leading to the next film.

Beneath is actual kino and you're a dimwit beta male if you don't like it.

>>217777968
That film is fun and trippy.

>>217778132
It's just interesting to come up with something this bizarre as a follow up, to me the path of least resistance would be something along the lines of "A second astronaut meets a second group of monkeys who are a lot like the first but they live near a volcano or something, and then they have a war with the monkeys from the first one". Sort of like Avatar, it's strange to think that there was a time in Hollywood where a cash grab sequel to a highly popular movie could go this far off the rails

>>217780433
This.

>>217780433
Haha seriously. It's thoroughly entertaining. Better than the first really.

>>217780518
Pre-Star Wars sci-fi was more cerebral and inventive