The Best ‘Planet of the Apes’ Movie That Was Never Made
The worst Planet of the Apesmovie could have been the best one. Tim Burton’s 2001 Planet of the Apes has gone down in history as one of the worst reboots ever made. (It certainly appears on this website’s list of terrible reboots.) The failure of the final product is not entirely Burton’s fault; 20th Century Fox spent much of the 1980s and ’90s looking for a way to revive the Apes franchise, which was retired following 1973’s Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Fox spend untold millions developing and abandoning various concepts for a new Planet of the Apes before finding one they liked by Will...