Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 12:09PM 'Animal Farm' Adaptation Rumors
Do you remember reading Animal Farm in school? You know, the book about the talking animals who revolt against their farmer. It was meant as a social commentary for the rise of Joseph Stalin. It was a critically acclaimed novella written by George Orwell that has been adapted in films twice before: once as an animated feature in 1954 and the second, a made for television live-action movie released in 1999.
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Now, rumors have been circulating that a CGI version of the allegorical story is now in the works. Director Rupert Wyatt, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is looking to remake Animal Farm with Andy Serkis. Serkis has now become a pioneer in Mo-Cap (Motion Capture) acting.
Serkis is best known for playing Gollum/ Smeagol in the LOTR trilogy and King Kong in Peter Jackson's rendition of the classic film. I can't really remember seeing Serkis in anything live-action despite enjoying The Prestige very much so. I haven't seen Wyatt's other films but I do plan to -- his films, I hear, are well directed pieces of art.
By the time this film does get around to post-production, the technology will be advanced enough to make the animals look photo realistic and maybe do the book justice. Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes opens August 5th, 2011. Andy Serkis can also be seen in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secrets of the Unicorn, A CG rendered film, which opens December 23rd, 2011.
Reader Comments (5)
Well I suppose it's another adaptation with a new, different generation of visual tech. Despite the Cold War being long over it's still a relevant cautionary fable. So long as they don't try to make it a family fun night animated movie with musical numbers. After "Happy Feet" and 'Legend of the Guardians" I'm sure they can pull off some very compelling depictions of animals telling an allegorical human story. Anyay, I've still got my fingers crossed for an adaptation of "Watership Down".
Hey Bradley, lets just hope that 'Animal Farm' doesn't come out like that Dakota Fanning 'Charlotte's Web'. I thought that movie was terrible, compared to the animated version I saw in school. Have you seen the 'Watership Down' that came out in '78?
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The version of "Charlotte's Web" with Dakota Fanning, The "Babe" movies, - all were with animatronic technology that they had been doing since the 80's. With CGI they're not limited to all the gears and hydraulics of those "puppets". They could make things very lifelike. If they could well extrapolate from what they did on "Happy Feet" and "Legend of the Guardians" they could make something very compelling and haunting even in how lifelike it would appear. I'm thinking it would REALLY look like animals talking, I mean REAL animals. Not ones where you notice they're lighting and editing and choosing just the right camera angles to keep you from noticing the limitation of the animatronic puppet's movements. Then, after "Animal Farm" and what I'm thinking they'll do on "The Life of Pi" if they want to continue in advancing CGI tech and also do some really compelling stories I still say "Watership Down" would be a great, untapped story to develop. Yes it was done in '79 as a cell animated feature, but the limitations of the visual style and also the script, barely touched the many levels of the original novel, so it's well worth another try with advanced techniques that could very effectively bring the story to life in way unperceived when the '79 version came out. Another candidate, I think, - also made as a movie by the people who made that same '79 version of "Watership Down" - "The Plague Dogs" another great allegorical story told with animals. CGI technology of THIS era would genuinely give these stories a chance to cinematically live as never before.
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