In 2022, Iman Vellani made her skilled performing debut in one of many largest methods doable: enjoying a superhero within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actress debuted as Kamala Khan within the Disney+ sequence Ms. Marvel, then reprised the position a yr later in The Marvels. We’ll subsequent hear Vellani voicing Kamala within the upcoming Marvel TV present Marvel Zombies, and I’m hopeful she’ll additionally return to the position in live-action for an upcoming Marvel film. Within the meantime, I’m jazzed to listen to that she’s additionally participating in a 2025 film launch that boasts an all-star forged together with people like Seth Rogen and Woody Harrelson.
Per Selection, these three actors, in addition to Gatem Matarzzo, Steve Buscemi, Gleam Shut, Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jim Parsons and Kathleen Turner, have all been tapped as voices within the animated adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. This newest tackle the 1945 novella is being directed by Andy Serkis, who can even lend his voice to the manufacturing. Nick Stoller of The Muppets and Storks fame wrote the script.
Animal Farm follows a bunch of anthropomorphic cattle who insurgent in opposition to the farm’s human homeowners and take management of it. Whereas the animals try to create a greater society for themselves on the farm, all of it goes sideways when a pig named Napoleon grabs energy and turns into the farm’s dictator. Andy Serkis’ model would be the third movie adaptation of Animal Farm, following the 1954 animated film and the 1999 live-action TV film. Apart from Seth Rogen voicing Napoleon, not one of the different actors’ characters have been recognized.
Andy Serkis has been connected to Animal Farm stretching again to 2011, when Rupert Wyatt, who directed him in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was going to helm the challenge. Serkis took over directorial duties a yr later, however it wasn’t till 2022 that Animal Farm lastly started manufacturing over at Cinesite Studios. Serkis beforehand directed Breathe, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
As a lot as I’ve loved seeing Iman Vellani deliver Kamala Khan to life within the MCU, it’s good to see her getting concerned in initiatives unconnected to the superhero franchise. I’m curious to be taught whom she’ll voice in Animal Farm, in addition to the opposite collaborating expertise on this upcoming book-to-screen adaptation. The actress’ different upcoming motion pictures embody Shiver and Mouse, although neither of them have launch dates but.
Animal Farm, alternatively, is ready to hit theaters on July 11. Till then, be at liberty to stream Iman Vellani’s appearances as Ms. Marvel along with your Disney+ subscription.