{"id":471491,"date":"2026-05-06T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471491\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:00:12","slug":"andy-serkis-to-narrate-short-animated-film-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471491\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Serkis To Narrate Short Animated Film ‘Pigeons’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Andy Serkis<\/a> has been set as the narrator for short film\u00a0Pigeons<\/a>\u00a0from director Amos Sussigan<\/a> (The Cat in the Hat,\u00a0Animal Farm). The film will world premiere as an Official Selection this evening (May 6) at the Oscar qualifying\u00a0Animayo\u00a0festival in Gran Canaria, Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPigeons\u00a0follows a carrier pigeon who loses his job the day a telephone is installed in his owner\u2019s home. Searching for food, shelter and purpose, the film explores freedom, progress and what gets lost along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Swiss-U.S. animated short film was made in collaboration with The Hub Media and BMC films. It was written by Julien M. Wagner (September Babies), Timo von Gunten (La Femme et le TGV) and Sussigan. Sussigan, von Gunten, Samira Sahli and Walt Disney Animation Studios\u2019 Dan Lund produced the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is the third collaboration between Sussigan and his mentor Lund, who have worked together on Oscar qualifying animated short films<\/a>\u00a0Aria for a Cow\u00a0(2015) and\u00a0Coaster\u00a0(2019), featuring drag queen Nina West. Sussigan, who is currently a production designer at Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, recently served as set designer on upcoming animation\u00a0Animal Farm, which Serkis directs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPigeons\u00a0counts Sergio Mancinelli(The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse) as its art director while Peter Staubli (Skyfall) of Formosa Group is sound designer and re-recording mixer and Shane Harris (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) of Company 3 is senior colorist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMaybe it was the state of the animation industry, but at some point,\u00a0Pigeons\u00a0stopped feeling like an idea and started feeling like something we just to make,\u201d said Sussigan. \u201cFast. Imperfect. Honest. In a way, a remnant of old days. We never talked to studios. We talked to creatives. What started small turned into 45 artists, working nights and weekends, across the world. In a time where things are generated in seconds, we spent a year making something by hand.\u00a0Pigeons\u00a0is not special because of what it is. It\u2019s special to us because of how we made it. It\u2019s a film about purpose. In the end, it became one for all of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSussigan recently worked on upcoming title\u00a0The Cat in the Hat, which is set for a November 6, 2026 release via Warner Bros. Pictures. His next project is the\u00a0Hello Kitty\u00a0movie for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, set for release July 21, 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSerkis is currently directing Warner Bros. Pictures\/New Line Cinema\u2019s\u00a0The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, reprising his role as Gollum. That film is slated for theatrical release on December 17, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnimayo runs May 6-9, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Andy Serkis has been set as the narrator for short film\u00a0Pigeons\u00a0from director Amos Sussigan (The Cat in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[206945,7196,18,117,19,17,327,57846,206946,146970],"class_list":{"0":"post-471491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amos-sussigan","9":"tag-andy-serkis","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-pigeons","16":"tag-short-films","17":"tag-shorts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116528468811945773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}