YOU ARE A MONKEY, DEREK!
Yes, folks, this is real. This is not a test of the Emergency Unintentional Parody System. Andy Serkis – the man who “played” Gollum and Caesar the chimp in Rise of Planet of the Apes – has announced plans to direct and star in a motion-capture take on George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Presumably, the man who pretended to be a chimp pretending to be a man and taught us what it means to be human, will now play a pair of pigs who become human in order to embody the horrors of totalitarianism. The metaphors… I’m dizzy…
The Imaginarium has negotiated the rights for a feature film adaptation of George Orwell’s classic tale, Animal Farm.
“Both The Bone Season and Animal Farm are perfectly suited to the Imaginarium,” said Imaginarium’s Jonathan Cavendish. “With Animal Farm, we will reinvent this iconic story for a new generation, using the unique storytelling techniques offered by performance capture. The acquisition of these two projects marks an exciting time for all us at The Imaginarium.”
Serkis and Cavendish will serve as producers on The Bone Season; Serkis will direct and act in Animal Farm and produce along with Cavendish.
“We are delighted to officially announce our involvement in bringing this classic yet controversial fable to life, hopefully allowing it to resonate for our times with a combination of a fresh perspective, real emotional heart, a great deal of humor and satire,” said Serkis. “By utilizing performance capture, a deeply talented and committed cast of actors will be able to explore and fully inhabit Orwell’s fairy tale world where ‘some animals are more equal than others.’” [Imaginarium press release via Deadline]
Oh my God, a room full of leotard-suited actors playing pigs and horses and sheep while Andy Serkis in a pig nose stands on a ladder earnestly shouting instructions into a bullhorn he’s holding with his hoof-hands… “TOMMY! Is that how you gallop? Quit lying to us, man! Stop acting like a horse and start becoming one! Can someone get him some oats? Christ, the man acts like he’s never worn a feedbag before… And Linda, you don’t start pecking yourself until my second bleat. Got it? Places, everyone! (*squeal*)”
ALL OF THE OSCARS.
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If C-Tate and da Stafe announce plans to write, direct, produce and star in The Atari Trilogy… I MIGHT JUST DIE!
Two legs good, this movie bad.
/your mom’s Bone Season is summer. Also fall, winter, spring, and summer again.
Ughhhh, is it unhealthy that I’m male and still want to have this movie’s babies? Cause seriously, I’d look into extreme forms of fertility treatments like walking by Skaaaaaaaaaarsgard for this to be a success.
The two movie reduxes I need to see are 1) War Horse with voiceover narration by the horse (Wallace Shawn or the Latino kid from Modern Family as the horse) and 2) ROTPOTA without CGI, where you just see Serkis in the mocap suit. The latter is a perfect dicknose project.
I think #2 is the story of James Franco putting an autistic guy in a dot-covered leotard and having adventures. So, yeah, spot on dicknosing.
Does this mean Andy is going to follow a real director around in his ping pong ball suit to capture his essence?
Was there a goat in Animal Farm? If so, somebody needs to call Rihanna, stat.
The goat was named Murial
They could save money by having Sarah Jessica Parker play Molly.
cynicism be damned, this sounds kinda awesome….
“Animal Farm” is too cerebral a title for this day and age. Rename it “Andy and his Serkis Animals” and I’m in.
Or “Hot to Trotsky.”
@Larry – That actually made me snort loud enough that my back popped. Thanks!
The 1999 version of Animal Farm was pretty good, hard to go wrong with Kelsey Grammer as Snowball and Patrick Stewart as Napoleon,
I’m sorry – at first I thought this was about Andy Serkis doing a mo-cap version of Animal Farm. Whew. Glad I misread that.
Some men dressed in leotards covered in ping pong balls are more equal than others.
Steven Seagal will Mo Cap all the cows and bulls. But by “Mo Cap” I mean divide his stomach into 4 through sheer willpower.
If Serkis were ever to mo-cap a retard, he’d be called Andy-capped.
—hi fives–
Animal Braaaahhhhmmm
It’s also funny that he’s still trying to sell Animal Farm as “controversial.”
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”
George Orwell