In a conversation with Variety about the long-awaited animated adaptation, Serkis shared that the project started as a motion-capture film, but the creative direction was later changed into animation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Serkis has wanted to make “Animal Farm” since he first read the book on a school bus as a kid. Now, after its premiere at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Animal Farm,” George Orwell’s allegory for how the structures of power corrupt revolutionary idealism, is generally understood to ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - "I don't think there's such a thing as a performance-capture or motion-capture actor," Andy Serkis says. "Any actor can do it. I've just embraced it, is all." Indeed he has. The ...

The film, which premiered at Annecy and has been in development for 13 years, was originally meant to be a motion-capture production. The most recent filmed version of “Animal Farm,” the George Orwell ...