Corrected entry: When Zira is being interrogated, she says that the planet was destroyed in 3950 or something. The interrogator, later tells the President that the Earth was destroyed in 3955. In the original Planet Of The Apes, the ships display at the beginning of the movie shows that Taylor and his men crash landed in the year 3978. This would have been over 20 years later. Yet the planet was blown up in Beneath The Planet of the Apes at the end of the movie. So the timeline is impossible. (00:43:25)
Casual Person
1st Jan 2008
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
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Correction: Now although, the chronometer on Taylor's ship said it crash landed on Earth in 3978, it was stated on one of the corrections in the corrections page from the original Planet of the Apes movie that the chronometer could have easily malfunctioned and got the wrong date as the stasis tubes were also malfunctioning. Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes both did in fact take place in 3955. When Cornelius, Zira and Milo rebuilt Taylor's ship, the chronometer probably adjusted back to 3955 since it was fixed properly. No impossible timeline here.
Casual Person