Andy Serkis have wanted to do ”Djurgård“Since he first read the book on a school bus a child. Now, after the premiere at Annecy International Animation Film FestivalHe has realized his dream. But unlike he intended originally intended manner Back in 2012 when the adaptation was announcedThe film is animated and not movement capture.
“By definition, to do it as a live-action movie would have done it from the beginning, darker, and the character designs we worked with in the way we did it was too heavy,” Serkis told The Wrap. “What the animated world gives you, as I have realized, is an innocence and a way of telling that allows the audience to connect and fill in the dots in a much deeper way. You can still have characters that are equally meaningful and emotionally engaging, but you are freed from reality to some extent. And therefore you can maintain innocence.”
The latest filmed version of “Animal Farm”, George Orwell -Novellen where pets rise to the human farmer who owns them, was one Live Action 1999 TV movie It matched the votes from Kelsey Grammar, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart and Paul Scofield, including real pigs, chickens, dogs and horses. A previously animated version was released in 1954, partly funded by the CIA in an anti -communism effort. The novel’s explicit political overtones, which were originally intended to reflect the Soviet Union, lent to the United States’ then lens.
During the 2000s, the novel’s politics met differently, and it scared many potential producers. Serkis said that several studios rejected the project and told him: “No, it’s too message-y, too politically, too spinach-y.” The project eventually landed on Cinesit studios In 2022. His goal, however, was to “tell it in an innocent and comical and fun and heartwarming way, but most importantly, where you care deeply about the characters and what happens to them.”
“We live in a difficult world, but every generation lives in a difficult world for different reasons, and we always make the same mistake,” said Serkis. As for its connections to the current political landscape, however, he said: “There is nothing in spring film Which is specific to compare with all political parties, the regime or the person, because we started doing this 14 years ago. “
Serkis also told Variety to the movie – that includes voice talent Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin and Steve Buscemi – were not made “for any algorithm”, and that gifts of it as an animated, family movie was simply “the right way to tell” the story.
“I just thought that a new resale of this has not been made for a new generation,” Serkis said.
