Defamer
A startling revelation from the '60s emerged this week when Dan Richter, who played the contemplative ape in the prologue of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acknowledged a top-level, primate-swiping security breach on Stanley Kubrick's set. It all started with the embittered recollection of losing a special 1968 Make-Up Oscar to Planet of the Apes — and then, like a slo-mo bone in the prehistoric sky, the conspiracy theories flew:
Planet of the Apes? It was so below what we were doing! Also, I'll tell you something else: We had stuff stolen. I can't say it was Planet of the Apes, but they were the only other movie shooting at the same time and same place we were. Stanley and I even had someone steal a mask and some ape hands right out from under our noses on the backlot, where someone had hid in a drainage ditch. We were in lockdown all the time.
Most whispers over the years have suspected Planet star Charlton Heston himself, whose kleptomaniacal drive for monkey superiority was one of Hollywood's best-kept secrets of the last four decades. Closure is within reach since the star's passing, however, when an autopsy revealed that the period rifle pried from his cold, dead hands was in fact lifted from the set of Kubrick's 1975 epic Barry Lyndon. We knew it! A face-to-face afterlife apology is surely forthcoming.
- Dan Richter on Playing the Ape in '2001' [Vulture]
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Dr. Zaius > Man/Ape with bone
Next thing you'll hear, is them accusing Microsoft of stealing the design of the OS from HAL.
"I can't say it was Planet of the Apes, but they were the only other movie shooting at the same time and same place we were."
Try again, Cheetah.
Kubrick filmed the "Dawn of Man" sequence in England at M-G-M's Borehamwood Studios (he used an innovative rear projection system for the backgrounds, which were stills shot in South Africa). Planet of the Apes was shot on the Fox lot and on their "ranch" in Malibu.
To suggest Planent's John Chambers -- one of the true giants of film makeup -- would steal from another film is pretty pathetic...unless of course he arms that stretched across the Atlantic.
I don't have much to add other than this:
And a possible theory involving ape-controlled theft.
@Old No.7: Well in the 2001 novel, one of the astronauts was using a web browser in a gui environment!
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I think a damned dirty hippie took that prosthesis home to Roddy the McDowall out of someone. Thus Heather Mills was conceived.
Planet of the Apes was excellent... but Stuart Freeborn's work in 2001 was better!
Nothing can really match the awesome epicness of this-
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