Andy Serkis says that his adaptation of Animal Farm is going to be ‘unique’ as it will be entirely performance capture.
Serkis will return to the director’s chair as he makes his feature film directorial debut - has done other directing things in the past but never as a solo filmmaker.
And the actor has talked about how they are going to bring George Orwell’s classic novel to life with the new adaptation.
Speaking to Screen Daily the actor said:"What we're trying to do is fairly unique.
"It's going to be entirely performance-captured, so rather than photographing real animals and showing them with talking mouths, it will all be generated by the interaction between the actors playing those roles... the physicality and facial expressions of all the animals will come directly from actors' performances.
"The design for those has to work in a particular way and it's a particular heightened design look we're going for. We also have to find a balancing aesthetic for the environment in which we situate the characters."
Not only is this the first time that Serkis will have directed on his own, but it is also the first film project for his performance capture studio Imaginarium.
We haven’t seen Serkis on the big screen since the success of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey this time last year. However, he has completed work on Freezing Time and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; the latter will see him return to the role of Caesar.
As for Animal Farm, filming is set to get underway next year.
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