Twilight Zone: Planet of the Apes describes an insane fan-edit project: to re-cut the original Planet of the Apes as a Twilight Zone episode:
When I first started gathering information about POTA, I was surprised to learn that Rod Serling co-wrote the screenplay for Planet. Then suddenly it all made sense. ‘Of course! Planet is a two-hour episode of The Twilight Zone!’That idea stuck in the back of my head ever since. Then with the recent advances in digital filmmaking technology and especially after reading about fan edits (particularly the couple of Star Wars: Episode I edits that surfaced), another thought struck me: ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to take Planet and edit it down into a thirty minute episode of The Twilight Zone, complete with Rod Serling narration?’ I knew the project would take a lot of patience to assemble the pieces, but once I got them together, it would be great fun to create the final product.
You can download the half-hour episode in QuickTime format.
(Hat tip to Boing Boing.)