While poor old Marky Mark had to make do with of Helena Bonham Carter in a chimp suit by way of love interest (although she did have an unsettlingly attractive something about her…), James Franco has lucked out, with the lovely Freida Pinto cast alongside him as an unfeasibly attractive “primatologist”. And the actress is keen to stress that the film will not be just another dumb blockbuster.

“When I read what the story was about, and the idea of the film is out there,” said Pinto to Earth’s Mightiest, “I really thought that, yes, it was a big budget film and all of that, but it really had a soul in the kind of story that they wanted to put out there. It’s a battle between humans and apes with humans trying to make themselves superior by exploiting another animal.”

Pinto herself is apparently a bit of an animal lover, and the film’s anti-cruelty message was one that she could relate to. “ I just thought that there was a lot of soul to it,” she says. “I also like films with a lot of animals in it, and what happens to animals really does break my heart.”

Hmm, she sounds a bit Miss World there granted, but in all seriousness it’s another exciting bit of casting in what is shaping up to be a cracking little ensemble. Lets just hope there’s no inter-species snogging this time out…