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Mark Wahlberg On The Failure Of Tim Burton's PLANET OF THE APES

The actor who played the lead role in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Mark Wahlberg, talks about what exactly went wrong with the film and if he saw the Rupert Wyatt-directed film...

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By WolvieCBM - 12/29/2011


While Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton was a box office success, many fans and critics felt that overall, it was a disappointing remake. Well, Mark Wahlberg, who had the leading role in the film, feels the same way. Talking to MTV, he said that the whole thing was rushed, and that the film was not ready to be released:



If he saw the Rupert Wyatt-directed film Rise of the Planet of the Apes:

"I haven't seen it yet, but I heard it was pretty damn good. Well, ours wasn't. It is what it is. Ours wasn't."

"They didn't have the script right. They had a release date before he had shot a foot of film. They were pushing him and pushing him in the wrong direction. You have got to let Tim do his thing."


But, according to Wahlberg, that was the best time he had on a film set:

"I have no better time on any movie than I had working with Tim. I had the most amazing time with Tim. I run to be on the set with him. We were doing reshoots, and he came out with me to Paris. We're in the club. Tim was in the club, man. Tim was in the club. Then he'd be drawing people, and all of his caricatures looked the same. He'd be drawing people in the club."


There you go. What did you think of Burton's Planet of the Apes?


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padrejeff - 12/29/2011, 2:37 PM
Burton's was entertaining but that's about it. i did like Michael Clarke Duncan in it though.
SHHH - 12/29/2011, 2:38 PM
Loved The Ending...
headlopper - 12/29/2011, 2:38 PM
That , and it was the the worst fire hose caliber tub full of projectile vomit I've ever seen!

If people went to hell for desecrating POTA franchise- as this 'thing' did- Burton better be buried with marshmallows.

I'm a massive POTA fan, so I'm a bit biased about this subject. Sorry.
TheGambitFreakIsBatmanOfCBM - 12/29/2011, 2:42 PM
Hmm, I can't remember the movie, cause I haven't seen it in 10 years, but I remember liking it.
SuperFrost - 12/29/2011, 2:45 PM
It sucked, but Micheal Jackson was good in it....lol
BillyBatson1000 - 12/29/2011, 2:46 PM
Step back from the Bong Wahlberg! Take acting lessons. Grow intelligence. Go back to selling underwear.
shawnb - 12/29/2011, 2:46 PM
Maybe because "Marky" Mark Wahlberg was in it.
nuck82 - 12/29/2011, 2:49 PM
sounded like he wanted it to be good, but saddly not, and he knew it wasnt going to be
AutobotCommander84 - 12/29/2011, 2:52 PM
It wasn't that bad
superman2013 - 12/29/2011, 2:52 PM
@superfrost
LOL!
superman2013 - 12/29/2011, 2:54 PM
It shouldn't of been a remake because that would of meant if it did well they would of remade the whole thing and then noone would of been happy,I liked tim roth as the main bad ape though,cant remember his name,but yeah this crap movie led to rise of the apes so Im glad it was bad
Super23maN - 12/29/2011, 2:54 PM
It was entertaining until the end... can someone explain the ending to me?
DioFoRio - 12/29/2011, 2:59 PM
@superfront hahahah Helina B. Carter
RunDTC - 12/29/2011, 2:59 PM
I actually like Wahlberg as an actor. he'd be a pretty good Hal Jordan
spiderneil - 12/29/2011, 3:00 PM
terrible movie. everything that rise got right burton got wrong.
DioFoRio - 12/29/2011, 3:01 PM
@super time rift. didn't the monkey go through a worm hole to earths past? saw it once wasn't into it
meatbag - 12/29/2011, 3:11 PM
I liked the Marky Mark movie. It wasn't ever going to be anything as huge as the original, just another summer popcorn movie. That's what I paid for when I bought my ticket, and that's what I got. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was awesome, yeah, but I don't think the other one sucked.
pro346 - 12/29/2011, 3:11 PM
It wasnt that bad a little confusing at times
fistofthenorthstar - 12/29/2011, 3:20 PM
its two different styles of the movie. Never looked at it as a disappointment, just a different film. The ending was awesome.
CapFan79 - 12/29/2011, 3:22 PM
It was a horrible film. Marky Mark was totally miscast as were most of the other actors. It was

The makeup was good but it strayed so far from what made "Apes" popular in the first place.
NeoBaggins - 12/29/2011, 3:29 PM
The movie was good. Not much you can do with that material and the film exceeded into an entertaining popcorn flick.

The material is still limited. But in this day and age of making everything Batman Begins, a film like Rise of the Apes can be darker and succeed as an overrated film.

The Burton version actually has more re-watch value than the current one.

Tim Roth.
GrayFox1025 - 12/29/2011, 3:34 PM
It had a lot of things going for it, but couldn't hold up

I liked Tim Roth and Michael Clark Duncan's characters but did not like Marky Mark's

The ending was just flat out awful.

The whole emotional impact of POTA is the fact that Taylor WAS ON EARTH THE ENTIRE TIME!
CraptainAmerica - 12/29/2011, 3:36 PM
I thought it sucked in general. Wahlberg can act a big wooden at times, Burtons movies are hideously average (minus Batman & Edward Scissor Hands) and that hot blonde piece (Estella Warren?) was like a Huntington-Whitely...

BUT BUT BUT...

...nobody can deny that Tim Roth was an outstanding Gen. Thade. I'd watch te movie again just to see his performance!
Gutts81 - 12/29/2011, 3:37 PM
fruck the bullshyt! I liked the movie and still do.
Spock - 12/29/2011, 3:41 PM
I didn't think it was that bad, I did like the ending with Caesar sitting where Abe Lincoln should of been.
WellDrawn - 12/29/2011, 3:43 PM
The only redeeming factor about this movie was Tim Roth. Oh, and Michael Clark Duncan.....
dellamorte1872 - 12/29/2011, 3:53 PM
IT WAS EARTH THEY WERE ON THE WHOLE TIME WHEN MARKY MARK WENT THROUGH THE BLACK HOLE IT WAS THE SAME PLANET THAT HE WAS ON. EARTH EVOLVED TO MIRROR "OUR MODERN TIME" TIM ROTH'S APE WAS THE APE IN THE LINCOLN MONUMENT
CaptainTall - 12/29/2011, 3:55 PM
I looooove Tim Burton. Mark Wahlburg is awesome. This movie was okay.
Pusher - 12/29/2011, 3:58 PM
It sucked.
In a lot of ways closer to the book than the superior classic POtA movie but it still sucked.
Pusher - 12/29/2011, 4:00 PM
Tim Roth made it watchable at least once though.
astromerc - 12/29/2011, 4:02 PM
Burton should have spent more time working on a better script and less time working his bad drawings,and spending time in the clubs.
Cerebro - 12/29/2011, 4:04 PM
@super23man Not that hard to get.
1-The ship they were in comes across a time rift
2- They send a monkey though to see what's on the other side
3-When the monkey does come back. A few min. later, they send another monkey(Mark Wahlberg) to find the first monkey.
4-When Marky Mark doesn't come back. Hours later the ship goes to find them both, but gets sucked though and crashes on the closest planet.
5-Now here the tricky part. Where ever the time slip takes them past or future, I never figured it out, but who ever entered the time warp first, would come out last. Also min in the time warp were years, and hours in the warp were hundreds of years. So the ship enters hours later and the last to go in. That is why the monkey at the end is the last one to come out at the end.
6- Now I've confused myself. Nevermind.
BackwardGalaxy - 12/29/2011, 4:04 PM
It's a watchable movie... and Estella Warren was painfully hot in it.
headlopper - 12/29/2011, 4:11 PM
@TheGODDAMNSUPERGUY- (hands clapping!) Bravo!
headlopper - 12/29/2011, 4:18 PM
@Cerebro- That's what I thought! LOL! Good one!
thedude2936 - 12/29/2011, 4:30 PM
Yeah, Tim Roth was good as the evil chimp and Michael Clarke Duncan was good too, but that was pretty much all I liked about Burton's version. Also I think Tim Burton is a highly overrated director.
AgentDelta - 12/29/2011, 4:31 PM
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AgentDelta - 12/29/2011, 4:31 PM
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ISleepNow - 12/29/2011, 4:53 PM
Xeetor - 12/29/2011, 5:22 PM
Everything in it was crap except using the beached rocket to blast the charging apes back.
airbeyonder18 - 12/29/2011, 5:36 PM
Rule #1: Studios should never push Directors, that's when things get sloppy.
Fogs - 12/29/2011, 6:17 PM
What went wrong? Simple, they hired Tim Buron! He's a walking disaster since the late 90's!
Super23maN - 12/29/2011, 6:25 PM
@cerebro -- Ok this is how I understood the movie, it took place on a planet that wasn't earth, it had 2 moons, & then Burton totally loses me when Marky Mark crashed in D.C. in front of Thade's (Lincoln) monument... huh? how the hell?... even if the other monkey that went through the time slip first ended up in earths past & changed the timeline why would there be a statue of Gen. Thade on earth when he was on the other planet during the whole movie?... Unless I just didn't get the entire movie at all & not just the ending... my head hurts... I need a nap...
beowulfprime - 12/29/2011, 7:02 PM
The ending was actually the part I liked the most about the movie. Obviously they couldn't do the same twist as the original film, so they went with something closer to the ending of the original novel by Pierre Boulle. In the novel the astonaut visited a different planet where apes evolved and became dominant over men. When he returns to earth, a lot of time has gone by and he finds that the same thing has happened on earth. In the Tim Burton film, Thade uses the ship Marky Mark crashed in (remember the scene where he discusses rettrieving it from the water where it crashed?) to travel back in time to earth and apparently led s similar ape revolution like Ceaser did in the original films. I think the intention was that the apes had taken over our human society, not somehow created a society nearly identical (so they replaced the Abe Lincoln statue with a statue of Thade).
13echo - 12/29/2011, 7:35 PM
Burton can sometimes get caught up in the visuals of a movie and lose sight of the story. I thought he did the same thing with that sleepy hallow movie. However that being said I cannot (and will not) let Markey Mark lay the blame for that movie on Tim. The truth of the matter is Markey can't act......AT ALL!
SUPERBATSPIDERMAN - 12/29/2011, 10:24 PM
Burton's film sucked bad. I am so glad we got a good movie with Rise Of the Planet of the Apes.
NeoBaggins - 12/30/2011, 1:12 AM
A Burton film where everyone isn't wearing Goth clothes, black eye shadow and white make up?

Sounds good to me.
BCat - 12/30/2011, 1:17 AM
So.......was Tim in the club?
joeker - 12/30/2011, 7:58 AM
In other words when they were supposed to make a good film.they was in the club and it turned out shitty
ClarkFarley2012 - 12/30/2011, 8:40 AM
I actually enjoyed the movie. Don't understand why ppl don't like it.
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