Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: A Thread For ANIMAL FARM (2026)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wLmj9SiKM

Everyone involved with this should be shunned. And for extra hilarity, it's coming out on May Day.

Well, that's my least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise/IP-based flick of 2026 locked in.

There was some grifting nazi douche on the socials yesterday wailing about "it's an anticommunist book how dare they?"

Anyhow fuck Orwell

Saw that it's being produced and distributed by a right-wing Christian company?

this looks incredibly bad

Saw that it's being produced and distributed by a right-wing Christian company?

No / yes.

right wing organisations getting behind Orwell anti-communist propaganda, colour me fucking shocked.

The Man Farm ayyyyyyyy

Hey pig
Yeah, YOU

Finally watched the trailer. Fucking hell.

the new movie looks very bad, but I'm grateful that its existence has lead to me finding out about the 1950 Animal Farm comic strip adaptation that was secretly funded by the UK foreign office and apparently appeared in newspapers in Brazil and Burma (drawn by Norman Pett, who created 'Jane' for the Daily Mirror)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Animal_Farm_strip_cartoon.jpg/933px-Animal_Farm_strip_cartoon.jpg

comments on trailer v funny

right wing organisations getting behind Orwell anti-communist propaganda, colour me fucking shocked.

The 1954 version was financed by the CIA, so yeah.

Holy lol what the hell is this

UK made, distributed stateside by right wing Mormons who made the biopic about the child trafficker

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2467700/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Studios

Angel Studios emerged as the result of a bankruptcy reorganization from VidAngel,[4] using equity crowdfunding through Angel Funding[5] to finance its original productions by offering individual investors the opportunity to purchase shares in the company and its titles.[6] Content produced by Angel is distributed for free on their own streaming service.[2] Some titles are also available in other third-party streaming services as distribution deals.[7]
The studio produces and distributes "values-based" entertainment.[8] Much of its content carries Christian themes. Angel broke in to film distribution with Sound of Freedom, which grossed over $250 million at the box office.[9][10] Angel also distributed the first few seasons of the television series The Chosen.[11][12][13]

Ohhhhhhh dear

https://www.avclub.com/animal-farm-andy-serkis-barnyard-rap-opening-song

How could anyone possibly distill a film where Seth Rogen—voicing a pig based on Joseph Stalin—says “This is the sound of freedom,” before unleashing a cheek-rattling fart, into a single representative sequence? Well, leave it to Serkis and his team to rise to the challenge, and rise to it early. The freeze-frame-filled credits scene, stopping to introduce characters both literarily famous (Laverne Cox as Snowball, Woody Harrelson as Boxer!) and cinematically new (Gaten Matarazzo as Lucky, a cloyingly cute audience surrogate piglet), takes place as the animals overthrow the humans who’ve come to control their farm. This includes both Mr. Jones, the drunken and incomprehensible farmer, and the banker (Steve Buscemi) and his HAZMAT-suited lackeys who’ve come to seize the property. The fight is simplistic and forgettable. The music playing in the background is not.

While there are plenty of terrible musical montages in Animal Farm—including one where pigs go on a shopping spree in a mall, and one where a fuckboy pig in a hoodie plays on an iPad and drinks out of a Solo cup while “Get Ready For This” plays—nothing can compare to “Break Down The Barn” by Pigeon John. Oh yes, it’s not just a rap, but an original rap. Hopefully Pigeon John, a real rapper who’s shown up in a handful of John Singleton movies, can retire on the payday he earned for rapping lines like “There ain’t no holding us back / If you stand on two legs, then you’re getting attacked.”

The verses contain lyrics ranging from meaningless and imagery-focused (“It’s going down like a lumberjack / Take a look around, no needle in this haystack”) to literal (“All the money that you made, locking us in a cage / You better run or you’re getting the ax”). But little will prepare a viewer for the chorus, during which Pigeon John, swallowing every ounce of remaining pride, soundtracks this once-potent allegory against Soviet folly to an “Old MacDonald” chant of “E-I, E-I, E-I, let’s go!”

Author of this piece on Bluesky:

I'm now fully convinced that the (presumably hellish) experience of working on Animal Farm is what inspired Seth Rogen and Nicholas Stoller to do The Studio's Kool-Aid movie bit

dear lord save us

Look comprehension is hard

the only possible word to describe this film is Orwellian

"you're gonna 'two minutes hate' this movie to end!!"

A friend shared a link to the trailer a month back, and I thought it was a joke … this will make live action CATS! look respectable