The film will be set in present day America and certainly won’t follow on from Tim Burton’s car-crash, offering instead a new origin story for those damned dirty apes. The film will focus on a piece of genetic experimenting that accidentally imbues its test subject (an ape, in case you hadn’t guessed) with sentient thought.

When the medical programme is shut down, Caesar, the ape in question, finds himself banged-up in an animal sanctuary alongside a number of his simian chums. Now Caesar is smarter than your average chimp, and he’s not best pleased to be stuck behind bars. Naturally it’s only a matter of time before he’s whipping up a revolution among his hairy brethren.

All of which sounds fairly similar to what’s gone before, what with human’s heavy-handedness towards animals coming back to bite them on the arse. However, one element of the film will be very different to what has gone before, and that element is the apes themselves…