Spooked Writer

Was bored and for some odd reason, Planet of the Apes crossed my mind. Now I'm not a so big fan of it, but I did like the thought and the science fiction aspect about it.

Now I know the movies were based on the French Novel, but they differed with details and the endings. I didn't get the endings of the novel(or just b4 the ending of the novel) and the 2001 movie.

In the novel, Ulyesses escapes and lands in Paris of what he thinks is Earth, but only to find it taken over by the Apes . In the novel the idea is that he landed on a foreign planet, travelling there with his comrades and then goes through his ordeals. Then he finally escapes for Earth and finds Paris colonized by the Apes? Did he re-land on the same planet? Did the Apes travel 'faster' and colonize earth? Was his Time Dilation longer than expected? Or did Ulyesses originally crash on earth and mistaken it for another world?

In the 2001 movie, Mark Wahlberg lands in Washington DC to only find himself surrounded by apes in our time (though I don't remember the year on his ship's dashboard). Now there is quite a bit of time warping here (such as the main ship landing on the Planet of the Apes after Wahlberg got lost, but arrived there thousands of years before he did). So what's the case here?

So if a movie buff, or a sci-fi buff or cult buff can help me out here, it be most appreciated. Should stop using Wikipedia! Thanks!