By Michael Sheen, James Norton and Bill Nighy are among those lending their voices to a new animated feature adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s classic novella “Heart of Darkness”.
The project was originally announced in 2019 but stalled in limbo for some time. Now it has been revealed BreakThru Films (“Loving Vincent”) has come onboard, and the film is moving forward again.
BAFTA-winning filmmaker Gerald Conn directs the project using an animation technique he specialises in, one which uses sand on glass and makes this the first feature-length ‘sand animation’.
Mark Jenkins and Mary Kate O Flanagan penned the film script, which is said to be a close adaptation of Conrad’s original 1899 work which was a major critique of colonialism.
The original story followed Marlow, an idealistic steamboat captain sailing up the River Congo during the brutal Belgian rule and on a mission to find a mysterious figure named Kurtz who has carved out his own kingdom deep in the jungle.
Sheen is voicing Kurtz, Norton is Marlow and Nighy is a character known as The Manager. All three have already recorded their work.
The famed story has been adapted many times, most notably Francis Ford Coppola used it as the basis for “Apocalypse Now”.
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