Tim Burton's remake of Planet Of The Apes has been censored. According to reports, producers 20th Century Fox have quashed a scene involving a human Mark Wahlberg and an apeish Helena Bonham Carter consummating their love.
Special effects guru Rick Baker, a veteran of the Star Wars saga, told the US Daily News that Burton had: "Wanted to have sexual tension between [the two]. Tim wanted her to be sexually attractive to [human] men." But when the final cut is released in cinemas, viewers will see nothing more bestial than a chaste kiss.
A Fox insider told the newspaper: "Fox thought American audiences would recoil and that the movie would get an NC-17 rating. That would kill the movie for kids." The studio continues to deny that it has wielded the axe over Burton's simian-human sex sequences, but a "friend" of Bonham Carter confirms that: "The scene was in there originally, but the studio freaked out." The movie is scheduled for an August release in the UK.