Total Recall: Part Fives

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Why Five? Mainly because the execs at 20th Century Fox couldn't help themselves -- even though the Planet of the Apes sequels had been a study in diminishing box office returns, the films were still cheap enough to make that they all turned a healthy profit, so a fifth installment was more or less inevitable.

Franchise Changes: As the ticket receipts slowed for the series, the studio's purse strings tightened, making Battle for the Planet of the Apes a rather cheap-looking affair; in addition, screenwriter Paul Dehn, who'd written the second, third, and fourth films, had to bow out -- although he was later brought in to polish the eventual script, resulting in a cobbled-together story (and an eventual credit tussle in front of the WGA).

The End? Sort of, although Apes lived on as a pair of TV series before returning to the screen in 2001 (with Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake) and 2011 (the series reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes).

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1925866/news/1925866/

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