Finally! An Animal Farm free of "Heavy handed politics"!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 12:01pm

Does your child love dystopian political allegorical novellas but, more than that, love talking animals doing people things? Then he or she is going to love Andy Serkis' upcoming family-friendly adaptation of George Orwell's iconic anti-Stallinist kids' story Animal Farm.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Serkis' performance-capture studio The Imaginarium has recently acquired the rights to the 1945 book, and plans to adapt it as a motion picture. Serkis confirmed in an interview that the production will involve, not only the motion-capture filming techniques that brought him fame (most famously as the computer-generated Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy), but also puppetry and possibly even traditional animation.

More importantly, Serkis plans to toss aside a lot of the political mumbo jumbo that bogged down the original text to get to the true heart of Orwell's story: the tale of BFFships between cuddly farm animals.
Move over Madagascar

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 12:28pm

MMMMMMM MMMMMMMM luke warm poop on the horizon!

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 1:16pm

I can't wait until they make a version of Brave New World starring the Jetsons!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 1:49pm

At last, an Animal Farm Victoria Jackson can understand.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 2:00pm

Praise the maker!

My thoroughly unjustified (but absolutely visceral) hate of Andy Serkis has now been justified!

As Marg Helgenberger says in the Oscar-winning ERIN BROCKOVICH, 'It's a good day!'

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 2:40pm

Next up: his remake of Evita starring Honey Boo Boo

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/22/12 at 2:53pm

Another Evita nobody can understand?