{"id":44246,"date":"2018-08-02T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44246"},"modified":"2018-08-02T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T22:04:36","slug":"netflix-aquires-animal-farm-rights-for-andy-serkis-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/02\/netflix-aquires-animal-farm-rights-for-andy-serkis-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Aquires \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d Rights For Andy Serkis To Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/andy-serkis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/andy-serkis-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Serkis\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netflix really wants to be in the Andy Serkis business.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the streaming giant purchased the actor\/director\u2019s Rudyard Kipling adaptation <strong>Mowgli<\/strong> from Warner Brothers to debut sometime next year. And now they have bought the rights to another classic of British literature, George Orwell\u2019s <em>Animal Farm<\/em>, for Serkis to direct. Unsurprisingly, the film will be realized through performance capture. <\/p>\n<p>The project will see Serkis reuniting with his <strong>Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes<\/strong> and<strong> War For The Planet Of The Apes<\/strong> director Matt Reeves, who will serve as a producer on the project.<\/p>\n<p>For those who somehow escaped having to read the seminal middle school required reading novel, <em>Animal Farm<\/em> centers on a group of farm animals who stage a revolt and win their freedom from the human farm owners. They form a utopian society which seems idyllic and just at first, but things take a turn when ambitious pig Napoleon slowly stages a coup for control of the farm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal Farm<\/strong> is a project that Serkis has been wanting to tackle for some time. In 2012 his production company The Imaginarium had optioned the rights to the novel from Orwell\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The streaming service is teaming with the actor\/writer to adapt the George Orwell classic.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/02\/netflix-aquires-animal-farm-rights-for-andy-serkis-to-direct\/\" title=\"Netflix Aquires \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d Rights For Andy Serkis To Direct\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2544,5785],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-andy-serkis","8":"tag-animal-farm"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44246"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}