Talk:SpikeToronto/Beneath the Planet of the Apes, first story proposals for

Unsourced Material on first story proposals for Beneath the Planet of the Apes
On August 9, 2011‎ User:24.35.199.246 added a large amount of text to the Production section, with no sources given. It appears to be an extensive interview with Beneath associate producer and co-story writer Mort Abrahams, who also worked on the original film. It looks to me like it's for real - nothing in it strikes me as inconsistent with what I know about the Planet of the Apes series history, and I have read a good deal on it over the years. But this had details I had not seen before, so I cannot personally vouch for it. It is, however, very interesting, as they had no concept of making a sequel to the first film until after its release, and it seemed impossible.

This contributor has made very few edits. Never communicated in an edit summary or on a talk page. His text was not tagged. It was not moved to the talk page. It was abruptly deleted within minutes, as if it were vandalism. He only managed one comment, in the wrong place - the text of the article. He wrote I was trying to give you all the backstory, but I guess that's just too much to ask for. This too was immediately deleted.

I only found this by looking back in the article's history. Having started a debate on this issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film, I have decided to take more moderate action here. I have tried to save this from the dustbin of the history archives by copying and pasting it into the talk page, with a few minor edits, using the collapsing template because it's so large. Perhaps someone can track down where it came from. If nothing else, it makes for a good read if you're interested in a detailed account of how this film was developed. - Gothicfilm (talk) 10:54, 6 February 2012 (UTC)