The 1970 animated musical-comedy The Aristocats is the most recent Disney toon basic to enter the live-action/hybrid adaptation pipeline. In response to Deadline, The Roots founding member Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is on board to direct the pic, bringing his six-time Grammy-winning musical expertise and expertise directing the 2022 Oscar-winning documentary Summer time of Soul.
The Walt Disney Studios remake is written by Will Gluck (author/director of the Peter Rabbit films) and Keith Bunin (Pixar’s Onward). Thompson will even govt produce the pic, as will Tarik Trotter, Shawn Gee and Zarah Zohlman for Two One 5 Leisure.
The unique 2D movie, the ultimate Disney animated movie launched earlier than the dying of studio co-founder Roy O. Disney, was directed by Woolie Reitherman based mostly on a narrative by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe conceived as a live-action episode of Walt Disney’s Fantastic World of Shade.
Set within the early twentieth century, The Aristocats facilities on a pampered Parisian cat (voiced by Eva Gabor) and her three kittens who’re deserted within the countryside by their proprietor’s covetous butler when he learns the cats will inherit her fortune. They’re befriended by a streetwise feral cat (Phil Harris), who introduces them to a gaggle of jazz-playing strays in a single memorable sequence, and aided by different animals in returning dwelling and foiling their human foe.
The voice solid additionally featured Scatman Crothers, Sterling Holloway, ventriloquist Paul Winchell, Vito Scotti, Thurl Ravenscroft (voice of Tony the Tiger), Nancy Kulp, Pat Buttram, George Lindsey, Hermione Baddeley and prolific character actor Charles Lane.
Thompson is represented by WME and supervisor Shawn Gee.
[Source: Deadline]
