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** Also, Linda Harrison played Zira in early makeup test footage, but was later cast as the human Nova.
* Charlton Heston's voice during his famous "get your dirty paws off me" speech was made more realistic by the fact Heston was quite ill during filming of the scene.
* The early scripts for the movie had a closer
** Pierre Boule wrote a sequel draft called 'Planet Of The Men', which can be seen at Hunter's POTA Archive website (just Google it). It involves Nova and Taylor having a son named Sirius, who eventually leads a human uprising. The apes lose their intelligence and are back to being animals by the end. The last scene has Zaius doing tricks in a cage in a circus.
* Interestingly, there was a sort of segregation behind the scenes during filming; the chimpanzee actors ate with other chimps, gorillas with gorillas, and orangutans with orangutans.
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* [[All-Star Cast]]
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: One decade before ''[[Star Wars]]'' it was raking on money from sequels and merchandise.
* [[What Might Have Been]]: Scenes were scripted and filmed revealing, near the end, that Nova was pregnant with Taylor's child. The scenes were cut out of the final print, as it was felt that they changed the focus of the ending, leaving the door open to a sequel Heston didn't want (but got anyway).
==''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' ==
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