Here is Planet Of The Apes 2001's Forbidden Zone Calima explained. The original Planet Of The Apes from 1968 follows Charlton Heston's Taylor, an astronaut who lands on a mysterious world where talking apes have enslaved mankind. The movie's now famous - and widely spoiled - ending revealed the planet was really Earth in the distant future. Planet Of The Apes received great reviews and was a sizable success, to point that the studio pushed for a sequel - which was a rarity for that era.
Heston had little interest in more adventures but agreed to an extended cameo in the 1970's Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. This wild entry added psychic mutants into the mix, and it ended on a note no other modern franchise or Planet Of The Apes movie would dare; Heston's dying Taylor presses a button on a bomb that destroys the planet. This was part of Heston agreeing to return as it would rule out more follow-ups, but the studio managed to squeeze three more entries out in the '70s, in addition to a live-action TV series and a cartoon spinoff.
The Planet Of The Apes movie franchise lay dormant in the years that followed, though filmmakers like James Cameron and Oliver Stone flirted with remaking it. Tim Burton eventually signed on for Planet Of The Apes 2001, with the movie following Mark Wahlberg as astronaut Leo Davidson. Mark Wahlberg's Leo is part of the space station Oberon, which trains apes for space missions. While pursuing a chimpanzee into an electromagnetic storm, Leo suddenly crashes on the planet Ashlar in 5021 AD. Apes are the dominant species while mankind is enslaved, and the answers to the origin of the planet can be found in Planet Of The Apes 2001's take on the Forbidden Zone, dubbed Calima.
Planet Of The Apes' Calima Site Explained
According to ape lore, Calima is where Semos - the "first" ape who is revered as a God - was brought to life by the almighty. The apes leave this holy site alone, but Leo, his fellow humans and some friendly apes later arrive at Calima, which is actually the ruins of the Oberon space station. Checking the video logs on the station, Leo learns it crashed on the planet thousands of years ago. Semos is a version of Planet Of The Apes Caesar and was the ape who led a rebellion against the humans on the Oberon, with the apes and humans on Ashlar all being descendants of the crash's survivors.
Planet Of The Ape's unique take on the Forbidden Zone gets its name Calima from a sign covered in dust, which reads "Caution: Live Animals." Where's Planet Of The Apes 2001 reveals that Leo is actually on an alien planet, Calima differs from the original franchise, whose "Forbidden Zone" referred to the inhospitable desert surrounding the Ape City. This desert is the result of a nuclear war that destroyed much of the world, with the ape rulers rendering it off-limits to conceal the fact humanity once ruled the planet.
