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The Forgotten ‘Planet of the Apes’ Script That Somehow Included Topless Gorilla Strippers

The scrapped script featured a baby-killing plague, ape billboards, monkey Mickey Mouse and a strip club full of gorilla dancers.

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Prior to Tim Burton’s involvement with the Planet of the Apes series, Home Alone director Chris Columbus was hired to helm a reboot of his own starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Batman scribe Sam Hamm wrote a script for the proposed film during that time, and the story he came up with was pretty out there, to say the least. Hamm’s screenplay starts with an ape crash-landing a spaceship on Earth, which causes a plague that affects only babies. For whatever reason, the infants age rapidly and die in a matter of hours, with some growing full heads of hair and others being........

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