New animated adaptation of animal farm

[WarriorN]

In the words of @ Lecanardnoir on Twitter:

this is Orwellian.

https://x.com/lecanardnoir/status/2000051783364747417?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

Starring Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, Jim Parsons, Kathleen Turner and Iman Vellani.

In theaters on May 1, 2026

Keep the Orchid Corsage Flying

The Critical Drinker. Animal Farm - This Was Probably A Bad Idea.

Copyright runs out seventy years after the authors death, in this case 21 January 2020.

The biggest aspidistra in the world.

One can only hope it’s one of those trailers that is deliberately misleading for reasons only known to marketing people. Otherwise it looks horrific.

"Burmese Cat Days"

"Coming Up for the Village Fayre"

Chateau Lafite, 1984"

Dear God! What a travesty.

Loving these quips 😁 that I don’t totally understand but am rolling with them in the spirit of Mornington Crescent

omg

bingo

thank god for 1990s alevel history, the longest hardest most important drudge I ever did

1984 Dalmatians

Gap Year in Catalonia

The Flying Aspidistra

A Clergyman's Daughter (who never had amnesia)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles to India

Thanks for the link. The trailer produced a visceral reaction in me when I watched it but I couldn't articulate why. This really nails it.

1984 is my favourite book. For me it perfectly captures the truth about what humanity is capable of.

Animal Farm I read sparingly as it’s just so so bleak. I cannot reconcile whatever that shit is that I’ve just watched with a book that hit me so hard.

Just seen that Laverne Cox has been cast as a sow, not a boar. Even pigs can change sex now, it seems. Farmers everywhere will be surprised.

Schindler's Lift

Ha, ha. I think that every time I get into a Schindler Lift. The original book was Schindler's Ark, not sure why they changed it for the film, obviously the lift company wasn't on their radar.

It was the make at the cinema where I went to see it, I think the escalators too. I think the book I bought had 'formerly know as', like Prince, below the new title.

And to add greedy insult to meretricious injury, they're releasing it on May Day...!

LOL, FFS.

Nooooooo

This is unbelievable. I love Animal Farm and absolutely love G Orwell's writing and thinking overall.

And yet...... I think i'l enjoy watching this for what it is😃I look forward to seeing it with dd who recently read AF in school and have an interesting discussion after
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Brilliant love this thread

That's either supreme satire by some pissed off bod in the marketing department, or a deliberate choice to ram home the 'capitalism bad' message.

Everyone who works in Hollywood should be forced to read either Anne Appelbaum's 'Gulag' or Timothy Snyder's 'Bloodlands'.


You can't emerge from either of those thinking that authoritarianism is a good idea, or capable of missing the point of Animal Farm.