Joaquin Phoenix buys the rights to the book of Free the animals, to make a film about animal liberation

She is Ingrid Newkirk, founder and president of the PETA group, and he is Joaquin Phoenix, Oscar winner, animal rights activist and vegan. Together they try to change the world. And they do it (also) through art

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

Now accustomed to his activism and his speeches in favor of animals and the environment, now the Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix acquires the rights to bring to the big screen “Free the Animals”, a book written by Ingrid Newkirk, founder and president of the PETA group.

Phoenix had already composed for her the preface for the edition published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the volume.

Free the Animals is about heroes wearing balaclavas and breaking windows and laws to save animals. But we are not just talking about this. Because Free the Animals is an invitation to all of us to act. Whether it is to do it with wire cutters and crowbar or with a pen, each of us can and must fight injustice and fight for the liberation of animals whenever we have the opportunity, writes Joaquin Phoenix on the front pages.

The book Free the Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America is the story of a young policewoman, Valerie, whose world turns upside down when she finds herself struggling with a group of monkeys rescued from a laboratory where they were used for scientific tests.

Valerie then meets people willing to risk her freedom for the cause and joins them as they live on the run from the law she's sworn to enforce.

The actor also discusses why he's an animal rights activist and why he saved a mother cow and her calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse right after his Oscar win for Joker.

Joaquin Phoenix rescues a calf and its mother from slaughter

I have to be honest, I don't know if I would be able to sneak with a camera into a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, where animals are mutilated and subjected to torture, but I certainly know that my voice can tell the films and videos of the investigating activists. - writes the actor again. I don't even know if I would be able to pierce the nets to prevent heavy fishing, but I do know I can pretend to drown in a tub of water in a PETA video to encourage people to empathize more with fish. And, of course, I know I can't save every cow from being milked to death, but I know I can save Indigo and Liberty (the very two cows the actor rescued from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse).

A pacifist and activist against the intensive exploitation of animals, Ingrid Newkirk has also always believed in the action of the individual as a contribution to the construction of a better world. For this reason you have transferred the rights to Phoenix:

I really hope that he is not only directing the film, but also acting. I think he would win another Oscar, ”said the activist. «Joaquin understands what animals face, he lives and breathes the rights of animals, he is part of his very being. I was told that he would never allow the use of real animals in the film, knowing how stressful the set can be for them, a place totally unsuitable for their nature, amidst chaos, noise and dazzling lights.

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Source: PETA