New Animal Farm Movie Confirmed Anti-Capitalist Instead Of Anti-Communist

By Jennifer Asencio
| Published 1 hour ago

When Angel Studios released the trailer for the upcoming Andy Serkis adaptation of Animal Farm, I was already skeptical. The trailer suggested that the movie, led by Seth Rogan, not only missed the point of the novel, but turned it on its ear to support the very communism the book decried. However, back then, we only had the trailer to go by.

Now, independent political commentator Tim Pool has seen the full movie and confirms the impression the trailer conveyed was correct. In fact, the movie skews so far away from the book that Pool has refused to allow the movie to advertise on his podcast. According to Pool, the movie is anti-capitalist rather than anti-communist, which is the entire point of George Orwell’s notoriously anti-communist book.

Angel Studios is a well-known Christian outlet run by three brothers, Shawn, Jeffrey, and Jordan Harmon, the directors behind the campy Squatty Potty commercial. They turned their success into a crowd-sourced studio that is focused on conservative, Christian entertainment, including the Neal McDonough-led movie and series Homeland and the anime-styled Gabriel and the Guardians, a children’s cartoon led by the voice talent of Jonny Young Bosch, former Power Ranger and voice of Vash the Stampede in the English dub of Trigun.

Angel Studios Running Away From Its Conservative Roots?

With Animal Farm, Angel Studios seems to be running away from its conservative roots. Aside from a cast which includes well-known left-wing activist Seth Rogan, key character Snowball is played by trans thespian LaVerne Cox. This is not objectionable by itself, but it is a surprising move for a Mormon film company whose target audience is Christian conservatives.

Additionally, the movie is clearly targeted to and being marketed for children, with adorable, animated animals voiced by other celebrities, like Woody Harrelson and Glenn Close. However, Animal Farm is definitely not a kid’s book and not suitable as a “family film” the way this version is being sold.

However, the most glaring controversy is that the villains are obvious caricatures of famous billionaires, most notably Elon Musk, and that the movie decries capitalism by using the same storyline George Orwell used to criticize Soviet socialism and Stalinism in his 1945 book. The irony is that the book is largely about the use of propaganda to tell people what to think, and the adaptation being released on May 1, 2026 actually is propaganda more in line with a left-leaning Hollywood than a conservative Christian distributor. Even the distribution date is somewhat of an attack on the author of the work, as May 1 was the date of a revolution in Spain that was a significant event in Orwell’s life, about which he wrote a memoir.

Angel Studios May Have Circumvented Its Conservative Donors To Get Animal Farm Made

Angel Studios execs Jordan and Jeffrey Harmon leaped to defend the movie, claiming it was “anti-communist and anti-cronyist;” Jeffrey even went on Tim Pool’s show to respond to his allegations directly. However, the casting, the hints from the trailer, and the testimony of Tim Pool have all raised the eyebrows of many viewers and called attention to the lack of screening by the Angel Guild.

The Angel Guild is a group of donors who help crowd-source the movies Angel Studios produces. Each project is supposed to be voted on by the many members of the Guild, but several responded to various threads about the Animal Farm controversy by admitting they had not known about the vote or been offered a screening of the movie.