All animals may be equal, but not all adaptations of George Orwell’s 1945 satirical novella Animal Farm are the same. And the latest adaptation—the 2026 Animal Farm movie, a family-friendly animated film from the faith-based company Angela Studios, which opens in theaters this weekend—is unique, to say the least.
Directed by Andy Serkis (aka Gollum) and written by Nicholas Stoller (aka the screenwriter of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the Neighbors movies) this version of Animal Farm offers a new spin on Orwell’s famed critique of communism. Napoleon the pig (voiced by Seth Rogen) still leads a rebellion of the animals on a farm, who are sick of being treated poorly by their human master. But in order to make the film less of a political commentary and more of a family-friend romp, there’s also a new coming-of-age story about a young piglet named Lucky (voiced by Stranger Things star
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