Battle for the Planet of the Apes arrived at the end of a troubled writing process. Veteran Apes writer Paul Dehn, who had supplied the stories or scripts for the earlier sequels, was initially hired to develop the fifth film but withdrew because of ill health before the screenplay was completed. 20th Century-Fox then brought in John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, whose previous success was The Omega Man, even though neither had written a science-fiction film before—and Joyce later acknowledged that they had not even seen the earlier Apes movies when they were hired. Dehn eventually returned for a final polish, but the competing claims over the script became a full credit dispute.
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The Planet of the Apes Screenplay War Over Who Really Wrote the Ending
Battle for the Planet of the Apes / 1970s
Battle for the Planet of the Apes arrived at the end of a troubled writing process. Veteran Apes writer Paul Dehn, who had supplied the stories or scripts for the earlier sequels, was initially hired to develop the fifth film but withdrew because of ill health before the screenplay was completed. 20th Century-Fox then brought in John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, whose previous success was The Omega Man, even though neither had written a science-fiction film before—and Joyce later acknowledged that they had not even seen the earlier Apes movies when they were hired. Dehn eventually returned for a final polish, but the competing claims over the script became a full credit dispute.
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