Sean Marshall According to Deadline, Disney’s CGI hybrid live-action film The Aristocats has tapped Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, to direct. Thomspon will also oversee the music in the film.
The film will be written by Will Gluck and Keith Bunin will pen the script, while Tarik Trotter, Shawn Gee and Zarah Zohlman will executive produce.
This will be Questlove’s second time directing a film. He helmed 2021’s Summer of Soul, a documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. The documentary won the award for the Best Documentary Feature at the 6th Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards.
The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. It’s the last animated film that Roy O. Disney, co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, worked on before he passed away the follow year. The 1970 film was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and was written by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe.
The film centers on a family of aristocratic cats and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress’s fortune, which was intended to go to them. The film features the voice talents of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-Roxby.
