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Of course, the real danger comes when the film opens July 27. As Rothman remembers from Fox's event movie last summer, sci-fi enthusiasts can get ugly when you mess with their sacred texts. "On X-Men," he says, "the comic fans were like, 'What? They're not wearing yellow? Alert the President!' They didn't want anything to change." But if Burton creates an entirely new Planet while simultaneously satisfying the purists, he'll have taken a cherished classic and turned it into a franchise—something he hasn't accomplished since Batman. Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes—expect big-budget revisitings to them all.

On the other hand, if the movie turns out to be less fun than a barrel of you-know-whats, he'll have some explaining to do—especially about that rumored love scene between Wahlberg's astronaut and Bonham Carter's chimp. "I know there's been gossip about it in the press," says Burton. "And, yes, there is some sort of romance in the film. But it's not like you see any actual animal penetration. There's no bestiality. Nothing like that."

Let's just hope they don't cut any of the steamy pillow talk: "Put your stinking paws on me, you damn dirty ape!"

Originally posted Apr 27, 2001 Published in issue #593 Apr 27, 2001 Order article reprints
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