There’s a new adaptation of Animal Farm coming, directed by Andy Serkis. I read it in High School and I must say I did not imagine it like this. Brace yourselves.
If memory serves from my school days, the cartoon version completely changed the ending from the book, which utterly missed the point. Hopefully this won’t do the same?
I don’t think I’ve seen Hollywood completely miss the point of the source material this badly since that Lorax movie with Danny DeVito and Taylor Swift that turned the Onceler into a twink.
What’s wrong with turning a cautionary tale about a dictatorship, especially today, into a comedy?
I mean besides everything.
Some of the comments about the trailer on Bluesky are simply works of art.
I’ll wait until it actually comes out and I or a reviewer I trust has actually seen it to form an opinion. I hope the marketing is just part of a plan to ultimately subvert expectations.
Maybe I’m weird, but I like the idea of it. The absurdity of turning this book into what it seems to be is hilarious to me. It’s such an awful idea it turns around to make me laugh, mocking itself.
In the 2025 version does Napoleon the pig just go “yeah I’m going to take your food and hang out with the humans cos they are awesome, but don’t worry I’ll make life really crappy for the goats!” right from the start. And the other animals just shrug and go “sounds good, the alternative is a sheep!”
- gasp *
I hear Pharrell Williams doing the soundtrack.
That is all.
That was Portugal The Man, actually.
If he can work in a song like “Happy!” this movie will not be so despicable.
You know, if this is a movie where the plot - which echoes here and now ever so much - is subverted by the pluto- and technocrats get their asses kicked, and a bunch of kids see that…I might be okay with it.
I’m sympathetic to the idea that, in 2025, we need to make the bad guys actually lose. Not just for kids, even. Just make it so fucking blatant that it is bad, or else the message will be missed.
Early reviews are… unflattering.
Just…
I mean…
Come on. This has got to be the clue that the project as a whole is just some kind of layered subversive Bulgakovian satirical meta-hoax, right?? The “comedy” is actually the entire phenomenon of the film’s production and distribution.
Surely nobody could be in earnest about trying to present this movie “straight” as zany kiddie fun, with enough winking wisecrackery to make it palatable to adults, Shrek-style.
…Surely?
Might as well recall…
Now I’m curious, any luck with that yet?
Meanwhile Rotten Tomatos has it at 26% from the critics.
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BTW, the distributor is Angel Studios, known for releasing Sound of Freedom , for getting into tiffs with the producers of the properties they distribute, and for being a major promoter of the practice of encouraging audiences to buy future ticket blocks to give away. (So far though box office only $3.4 million in first weekend, $4.5 million in first full week.) So, yeah, sounds pretty hopeless.