Because the world needed another Planet of the Apes movie more than anything else, and because the movie-going public demanded it star James Franco, there's this: the new teaser trailer for "Rise of the Apes."
It's not embeddable at the moment, and won't be until someone downloads it and hosts it at his own site hoping he gets some serious hits until Fox makes him yank it. By then he'll have snookered a few people into seeing his Related Videos, which are all about his personal business. He takes your home movies on DVD and transfers them back to VHS. So far it's not doing so hot, but he's convinced VHS will have a niche revival, just like vinyl.
Anyway. Here's the link. It explains how the apes got smart: brain medicine! How they took over the planet will probably be explained in a sequel, but I already suspect Skynet. At least we're spared the previous explanation, from "Escape from the Planet of the Apes." - two smart apes fixed Charlton Heston's spaceship, blasted off
just as the incredibly-old-but-still-perfectly-working nuclear bomb went off, got hit by a Time Warp, and landed back in 1973. They had a smart ape baby, who would lead a revolution in the next movie, "Conquest." That led to the rise of Ape Society. If you're troubled by this, you're not alone. Why, just look at the wikipedia page:
It'll keep you up nights if you think about it too much. So don't.
