Released at the height of the American civil rights movement, the original 1968 adaptation starred Charlton Heston as an astronaut who crash-lands on a planet where humans are slaves to apes. It featured some iconic lines, a knotty racial subtext and one of the greatest twist endings of all time. In short, it left a lot to live up to.
The idea of a remake had been bandied about for years. At one point Arnold Schwarzenegger was set to star, with filmmakers as diverse as Oliver Stone, James Cameron and Peter Jackson attached at different times.
Burton – a Hollywood maverick with a flair for cerebral, left-of-centre fare such as Edward Scissorhands, not to mention 1989’s global smash hit Batman – promised to bring his own unique perspective to the material.
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