Andy Serkis will direct Animal Farm – the upcoming adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel. The project has been in the works since 2012, when Serkis first announced his adaptation.

Audiences can catch Animal Farm, which also includes Glenn Close, Laverne Cox, Steve Buscemi, Woody Harrelson, Jim Parsons, Kathleen Turner, Iman Vellani and Serkis himself, sometime this month.

Instead, he pivoted to a completely animated feature, with zero performance capture, just like the 1954 adaptation of the book, which was co-produced by the CIA (seriously, look it up).

Nagle added: “Ever since 1945, when George Orwell first published ‘Animal Farm,’ the story has remained relevant and a key instrument in understanding how the world works. Andy has had a ...

Seth Rogen (Napoleon), Kieran Culkin (Squealer), and Gaten Matarazzo (Lucky) voice talking pigs in the first look trailer of Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm. Variety shared the first public footage ...