# Talk:Planet of the Apes (2001 film)

The film never addresses the existence of horses on an alien world. The space station carrying such animals seems unlikely, especially enough to form a viable breeding pool.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.32.194 (talk) 19:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC) 

Spoiler  Since the end of the movie shows that, like in the original movie series, the main character never left Earth, it is not an "alien" world.  32.212.102.239 (talk) 23:29, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

I suggest that you either integrate the ending criticisms into the previous paragraph or include examples of critics who criticised that aspect of the film. You do a good job of documenting that it was an issue by quoting two actors and the director, but I think you need to flesh out the opinions they're responding to first. Recognizance (talk) 00:53, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I didn't see any mention of the fact that the ending does derive in part from the Pierre Boulle original.  In his novel, the protagonist returns to Earth, many centuries after he left it (time dilation, you know) and finds apes in positions of authority, and we also realize that the characters in the framing story are apes. WHPratt (talk) 13:59, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

This could also be following along with the timeline in the original series, where apes from what was first the future are sent back through the time wormhole into their past, and are then shown around to "our" present time society, and have a baby who later becomes Ceasar (if I am remembering correctly).  32.212.102.239 (talk) 23:27, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

So, apologies for intruding into what happens to be a very interesting edit war, but I just found out that there's an insert in the DVD version hinting that Thade took the Delta module after Leo left on the Alpha one and reached Earth further back in time to when Leo returned to, therefore causing Earth itself to be firmly in the apes' hands by when Leo returned to it. There's a link to the image in the plot section, but since I can't bother to make a password recovery right now I didn't upload it properly. Anyway, it exists, do with it whatever you want. 93.47.62.214 (talk) 22:48, 23 May 2025 (UTC)