I don’t consider ‘corporatism’ and capitalism to be the same thing, and there’s certainly no dearth of films in existence or in the making which are critical of both for that matter. I guess my objection to this is the revision of a work that was intended specifically to be critical of Soviet style totalitarianism. I haven’t seen the new film of course nor would I, but I have little doubt that it’s intent is to distort Orwells message. Frankly, like a few other commenters have pointed out, what Serkis is attempting to do is somewhat Orwellian itself.
The fact is they should not call it “Animal Farm” because it will have nothing to do with the original work. Saying its the story he “would have” done now is ludicrous to the extreme.
I agree with you that I wouldn’t want the message of ANIMAL FARM distorted. My objection was to people complaining about a movie they probably didn’t see. Scorese’s movie is over-the-top, of course, but so is the greed and sleaze which he is portraying.