Andy Serkis to direct animated Animal Farm, which is bound to be called "too political"
Serkis is trading Venom for Snowball in a new version of the George Orwell classic

A weary nation has a new headache on the horizon. Andy Serkis will be directing an animated adaptation of George Orwell’s classic work Animal Farm, and, Jesus, someone’s going to call it “too political,” aren’t they? Eyes can only take so much rolling!
Serkis is no stranger to animal-centric adaptations of classic works. A few years ago, he survived the CGI arms race between Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book and his harder-edged version of the same story, Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle. Hard to believe that a movie called The Jungle Book made nearly a billion dollars, and something called Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle was dumped on Netflix and buried by the algorithm. Apparently, no one was that interested in what Benedict Cumberbatch brought to Shere Khan.
After finding his directorial footing with the Venom sequel, Serkis is back with more animals and an animation studio that wants him to bring George Orwell’s soon-to-be banned book to the silver screen. Per Deadline, Serkis will direct Animal Farm with a script by Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors, Storks). Stoller also has some experience adapting classic works of literature, having written the screenplays for Gulliver’s Travels and Captain Underpants.