
In the first draft script, Leo's arrival on Ashlar coincides with the defeat of human forces by an ape army in battle, rather than the simple human-hunt depicted in the final film. He becomes the legendary 'Moses' revered by later generations as the founder of Ashlar. He finds that apes have taken over Earth, and leads a mixed group of humans and apes back through the worm-hole to Ashlar, arriving a thousand years before his first visit. At the end of the first treatment of William Broyles' story, Leo travels through a worm-hole and arrives back on Earth long after he had left.
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However his commander, Vasich, believed in sending a chimp before sending a man to explore something dangerous.

Leo didn't like the idea and would have preferred to go himself. When a great electromagnetic storm was detected in space, Pericles was dispatched in a small craft to check it out. He worked regularly with a chimp named Pericles who he trained to perform basic tasks out in space. Leo Davidson was an astronaut officer who was stationed onboard the space station Oberon in 2029 researching genetic engineering on chimps, orangutans and gorillas. Captain Leo Davidson is the main protagonist of the 2001 Planet of the Apes movie.
