Animal Farm
Netflix has pick up theAnimal Farmmovie adaptation that Andy Serkis is attached to direct , with Matt Reeves serve as a producer . This is the second motion - seizure driven literary adaptation from Serkis that Netflix has officially acquired in less than a week , after the company ’s leverage ofMowglilast Friday .
Serkis has been need to bring George Orwell’sAnimal Farmnovel - a not - so - thinly veiled fable for the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent advance of the Soviet Union - to cinematic life via motion - capture as far back as 2011 . He ’s never sacrifice up on the projection either , and has kept it on the back - burner at his production studio apartment ( The Imaginarium ) for the retiring seven age . During that time , Serkis and Reeves have collaborated on a pair of acclaimedPlanet of the Apesfilms ( both starring Serkis as the chimpanzee Caesar ) , and Serkis , as mentioned earlier , called the blastoff onMowgli : a hot - action / CGI movie based on Rudyard Kipling’sThe Jungle Book .
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Of course , the site withAnimal Farmis different from that withMowgli . The latter was already fetch up - stick with an extended filming full stop and post - production - and Warner Bros. was gear up to release it in theaters this October , before Netflix entered the equation . Animal Farm , on the other handwriting , will be designed with a world-wide Netflix audience in mind from the land - up and , thus , may go even further in embracing a black tone thanSerkis ' PG-13Jungle Bookre - imagining . That ’s quite fitting too , seeing as Orwell ’s reservoir material is , in many ways , a more beast animal fable than Kipling ’s story about Mowgli the gentleman - cub ’s coming of years .
As for Netflix : Serkis and Reeves are but two of the big name storytellers that they now have in their street corner . The company is far from done involve heavy swings at dominating the moving picture manufacture , either . In addition to spending trillion of buck on original movies and television receiver point this year alone , Netflix could have a legitimate Oscar rival in its pocket with theCoen Brothers ' western anthology series - release filmBallad of Buster Scruggs , which will contend at the Venice Film Festival in about four weeks . However that bid work out , the acquisition of bothMowgliandAnimal Farmonly further ensures that the future will stay bright for the streaming heavyweight .
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Source : Deadline
