I thought that was rather predictable when we were doing the first screenplay. Jacobs recalled, 'We were trying to make the audience believe it was another planet, which differs from Boulle's novel in which it WAS another planet. It was during the early script revisions that the idea for the famous ending to Planet of the Apes was devised. In contrast, Malibu Graphics' Planet of the Apes: Sins of the Father depicted the Statue of Liberty revealed to a young Zaius by his father Dr. Rod Serling, in his early script treatments for the movie, specified that Zaius should have suspicions about humanity's civilized past, 'but it must be only an inkling', and that his realization of the truth should not occur until after the discoveries at Cornelius' archaeological site. A large copper statue bearing a human face would have been an artefact of disturbing and heretical significance to one such as Dr. You may not like what you find.' In all likelihood, Zaius may have been referencing the Forbidden Zone, but it is just possible that he was speaking of the Statue itself. When Taylor indicated his plan to 'find his destiny', Zaius cryptically responded with, 'Do not look for it, Taylor. It is clear that he was aware of mankind's past, and to some extent, possessed knowledge of humanity's downfall.

Zaius knew of the existence of the Statue of Liberty. Young Zaius learns the truth in Sins of the Father Worse, he deduced that the humans of his own era must have waged a global war, which paved the way for a dystopian future where humans became subservient to evolved apes. Following the shoreline, he came upon the Statue's ruins and realized that he was on Earth. During the course of several days, Taylor believed that he had been living on a strange, alien world. In 3978, human refugee George Taylor fled from Ape City with his newly acquired mate, Nova. However the course of centuries, dramatic geological shifts left the statue halfway buried in the sand. The statue was one of the few surviving icons of pre-apocalyptic human civilization.

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