Having served as a second unit director on the upcoming prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, actor Andy Serkis is set to make his feature directorial debut with a performance capture adaptation of the George Orwell classic Animal Farm.

The film is being produced by The Imaginarium, the performance capture studio that Andy Serkis and producer Jonathan Cavendish formed in 2011.

This is what Andy Serkis had to say about the project, in which he is expected to play a role if he can juggle both directing and acting at the same time.

"I think we found a rather fresh way of looking at it. It is definitely using performance capture but we are using an amalgamation of filming styles to create the environments. We are in proof of concept stage at the moment, designing characters and experimenting on our stage with the designs. It is quite a wide canvas at the moment as to how much and how far we can take performance capture with quadrupeds and how much we will be using facial [capture]. We are not discounting the use of key frame animation or puppeteering parts of animals. We are in an experimental phase; it's terribly exciting.

We're keeping it fable-istic and [aimed at] a family audience. We are not going to handle the politics in a heavy-handed fashion. It is going to be emotionally centered in a way that I don't think has been seen before. The point of view that we take will be slightly different to how it is normally portrayed and the characters-we are examining this in a new light."

With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes next in line for Andy Serkis, its likely that we won't see this project until at least 2015. To read more on this project: CLICK HERE