I just saw the old version, the one with Charlton Heston.
Over all I thought it was a pretty good movie, but I have a question. What became of Taylor and Nova after they found the broken Statue of Liberty ? I know that there are sequels to the first one, but I haven’t seen them. Do any of the sequels say what happened to them ?
Thanks
SPOILER ALERT
Yes.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes does show what happens to Nova and Taylor.
It is a pretty good sequel. Not as good as Conquest of TPOTA
I don’t think I’ll get the chance to see the sequels any time soon. Please tell me what happened to them !!!
Well alright.
In the sequel we discover that NASA sent a rescue mission after Taylor and company. The rescue ship ends up crashing on the POTA as well. There is one survivor, a guy who looks like a slightly younger Taylor, I’ll call him Bosley (I don’t remember his name). Bosley meets up with Zira and a fake Corelius(not played by Roddy). Bosley discovers Nova in the jungle/forest and she leads him to where she last saw Taylor in the Forbidden Zone. She leads him into an underground cave which is where he discovers taht he is on Earth. The underground cave is Grand Central station (if memory serves)
Meanwhile the Apes are assembling their army to try to take over the Forbidden zone. Bosley and Nova end up getting captured by the Telepathic Mutants who live in the Forbidden zone. The Mutants worship a giant (Flash Gordon looking) nuclear bomb: The Dooms Day Device. Bosley is taken to his cell where he meets his cellmate… Taylor, clean shaven and wearing spunky white pants and dress coat.
Taylor and Bosley are forced by the Mutants to fight over Nova. They overcome their Mutant guard and escape. The apes break into the Mutants lair and a big shoot out occurs with Taylor and Bosley fighting both sides. Bosley is gunned down by apes. While Taylor is injured and confronts Dr. Zaius. With his dying breath he activates the Dooms Day Device (I guess he’s rather destroy earth himself then let the Apes do it.) The planet Earth explodes.
A great voiceover follows. Something about an insignifigant blue planet in a distant corner of the galaxy being destroyed and nobody noticing.
But just before he really dies, Taylor summons hs strength once again, climbs into his chariot, and hysterically asserts that Soylent Green is chimapanzees. He then lets slip the dogs of war and parts the Forbidden Zone.
Sir Rhosis
I think Bosley was Brent, but don’t quote me. He was played by James Tony Franciscus Franciosa.
Martin Sheen plays the POTA.
MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS**
James Franciscus plays an astronaut named “Brent,” sent to find out what what happened to Taylor (Heston). Eventually, he finds that Taylor has been taken prisoner by a race of telepathic radiation-mutated humans who worship a bomb. Brent is eventually taken prisoner, too, and in his conversation with Taylor finds that it’s not just a bomb–but an ancient Doomsday Bomb*, the only markings being the Greek letters Alpha and Omega.
Meanwhile, back at Ape City, the gorillas are planning an all-out assault on the mutant humans. The chimps are against it, but they’re all brain and no brawn. The orangs don’t really think much of it, either, but they have the same problem. It’s those damned, filthy gorillas!
Well, to cut to the chase, the gorillas do attack the humans, and end up setting off the Doomsday Bomb*, thus blowing up the world.
In spite of that, there were three more sequels, the next one (“Escape from. . .”) featuring Eric Braeden as Dr. Hasslein a time travel theorist (known to everyone as Billionaire “Victor Newman” on some soap that I can not recall–and John Jacob Astor in 1997’s “Titanic”)–back when he had his own hair on his head, and none on his upper lip.
Check out IMDB for some plot synopses on the others. I’m just going off decades-old memories.
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Someone explain the stupid ending bit to the re-make.
Why was Thadeus sitting in Abe Lincoln’s seat?
Because if you had a statue of someone standing on a chair it would look ridiculous.
Hmm.
Perhaps that’s an appropriate answer.