Lithgow was quick to announce another heavyweight addition to the cast, tweeting that, “Brian Cox will be in the film, he of the big meaty face,” before adding, “usually, there’s only room in a movie for one of us.”

Happily, they’re both on board this time around, with Cox as the movie’s main baddie, a crooked chimp-sanctuary owner who treats his hairy guests with more than a dash of cruelty. We’re thinking a money-spinning deal with a cosmetics company, or something along those lines.

And Cox too will have an on-screen son, in the suitably villainous form of Draco Malfoy himself, Tom Felton. Whether he’ll be as sneeringly nasty as usual is unclear, although it’s more than likely he’ll be in the firing line along with his father as soon as Caesar’s army go ape.