Questlove and Disney Making Stay-Motion/Animated Aristocats

After winning an Academy Award, it’s a must to assume an individual’s profession choices instantly change into far more huge. Little question Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson—a vastly profitable musician along with selecting up an Oscar final yr for Summer of Soul—already had fairly a little bit of freedom in selecting his subsequent undertaking, however who might have predicted he’d select… a remake of Disney’s The Aristocats?

Perhaps these two cuties?

At any charge, Deadline had the inside track on the information, which calls the movie “a live-action/hybrid reimagining” of the 1970 Disney classic “a few household of Parisian felines who be taught they’re set to inherit a fortune from their proprietor. When the proprietor’s jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them within the nation, they have to workforce up with a smooth-talking tomcat to attempt to make it again house earlier than it’s too late.” It would be the newest in a protracted line of Disney live-action remakes of its animated favorites, together with a much-anticipated take on The Little Mermaid that’ll be out in May.

The script for this reboot is by Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit, Annie) and Keith Bunin (Horns); Questlove might be amongst its government producers and, maybe unsurprisingly, may even be answerable for the movie’s music. The unique Aristocats options the standout tune “Ev’rybody Needs to Be a Cat,” sung by a pre-The Shining Scatman Crothers and others.

What do you consider this information? Are you excited for Questlove’s spin on The Aristocats? What Disney animated movie do you suppose ought to get the live-action remedy subsequent?

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