Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm Will Satirize Modern Targets Instead Of Stalinist Russia

During a Toronto ComiCon panel attended by /Film’s Sarah Bea Millner, Andy Serkis revealed that he has been working closely with George Orwell’s estate to update the narrative without betraying the author’s intent. “[I]t’s very, very contemporary,” said Serkis. “It also has a lot of humor in it, and it also has a particular point of view.”

How exactly will Serkis shift the satiric perspective, and will he go after any dictator specifically? He was a tad evasive on this point. Here’s what he told the ComiCon audience:

“I mean, look around the world, what’s happening, you can see how eternally relevant that book is still. But the ways and the language of telling that story have changed. And the targets, the characters that are being satirized are not Stalin and Trotsky and all of those people, they are — I’m not going to say who.”