Ugh. This fucking terrible franchise already died a much-deserved death with Burton's film. Let it rot already. No one gives a shit except Devin who wants another poster on his wall to help re-establish his so-called nerd cred.

Devin, why does everyone hate you? At least I think you're cool. Go Apes!!!

I bet fox treats this like the last X-files movie and just dumps it to little or no fan fare.

please no more of this putrid series..it started off as a trick pony, were all horribly made, and had a message about as subtle as an axe to the face..oh and to quote you mr faraci: " The Browncoats have always been a weird fandom – they're really into something that just isn't that good "…i guess the same could be said of your precious planet of the apes, huh?

i don't hate you Devin, and i'm a Christian to boot. I wouldn't mind this film i think it's a good series that Burton didn't need to get near, as much as i liked the idea of him doing it at the time……

Devin's awesome. I don't always agree with his opinions but respect him for having one (and I love Firefly.) However I have sub-zero expectations for anything fox puts out and routinely avoid anything bearing their name. Come on and surprise me with quality and respect to a fanbase you cunts… bet you can't.

Say what you will about the sequels, but anyone who thinks the first Planet of the Apes isn't great sci-fi or filmmaking in general is pretty much a fucking moron.

Bad News Devin, Fox is making the movie just to piss you off. They are going to put a vagina on Caesar's forehead as heavy handed symbolism to show you how bad they are going to fuck this just to make you cry. Suits tend to be vengeful type. Hang in there Bro.

The production office is opened, they've scheduled the location shooting and they're working on the apes but they still don't have a director? Locations and the look of the apes are surely decisions which need to be made with some input from whoever the fuck they get to direct this thing. Clearly Rothman's looking for some hack he can easily pull the strings of to sit in the chair (what's Gavin Hood up to these days?)

Biased much? Maybe their blacklisting you will teach you to be a little more professional… or maybe not. Either way, I like a lot of the stuff Fox has put out, especially Fox Searchlight. I now know to avoid your review of anything Fox related. Anyone who complains about getting into a movie for free and where they have to sit, is a gob of goo on the shoe of my theater. suck it up old man, your almost 40………. "if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains."

"Blacklisting" is a clever choice of words, since it implies some kind of shadowy McCarthyite cabal suppressing a greater truth. Devin's co-opting the language and iconography of a truly dark day in American media to make his being snubbed by a studio sound more sinister than it is. In reality, it's just a corporate PR department realizing they have nothing to gain from wasting time on one angry little blogger from an increasingly irrelevant website.

2 things. First the title will change, my pick: "Rise of the Apes". Second, there will be a ridiculous and unwarranted "this film is racist" controversy when in the current political climate they make a film about a monkey taking over America.

As a completely different Devin from the author (for serious), I'm uber-excited for this. Burton's remake was no-good, but I'm in love with this franchise. Even the crappy sequels are fun. Conquest also happens to be the best of the lot (minus the original, of course), and deserves a chance. Bring it on!

The idea for the film sounds much more interesting than a possible sequel to the Burton film.
Also, they have a very promising director in the chair this time out.

This sounds like Alien 3 waiting to happen again. The ball was already rolling on that atrocious film in the early 90s when Fox decided to fire Vince Ward from the directing chair and replaced him with an untested David Fincher.

Obviously, they haven't learned anything since then. Putting a director for hire in the seat of someone else's vision is not going to get you the same product you would have had had the director stayed on. It's going to give you a horrible, misguided mess.

Also, Fox obviously hasn't learned to stop trying to reboot series that should have ended. first it was Alien 3 and 4, then the X-men prequels, now this? This is making my hopes for the Alien prequel fall apart like a soggy cracker.

Damn it, Fox. You made good with Avatar. Why can't you just leave your old franchises lie?