UK Outfit Backs Rupert Wyatt’s ‘Birdsong’ and ‘Our Robot Overlords’

Ahead of the European Film Market (where many projects emerge, only to never be heard from again), the fresh UK film sales outfit Embankment Films is preparing some new projects to represent. One such project is the adaptation of Animal Farm with Andy Serkis directing and doing motion capture work, but there are two new projects that we’d yet to hear about. One is Birdsong for Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt, and the other is a sci-fi film called Our Robot Overlords, which will mark the first sci-fi project for Gillian Anderson outside her iconic involvement with The X-Files on film and TV. Read on! First, let’s look at Birdsong, an adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ acclaimed World War I novel of the same name. Wyatt is writing and directing after departing Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The story spans three generations and the unimaginable …