Disney is going hip-hop!
According to Deadline, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is slated to direct the remake of the 1970 Disney movie The Aristocats.
The news comes more than a year after Questlove took home an Oscar for Best Documentary for 2021’s Summer of Soul.
Sources told Deadline that the project will be a live-action/hybrid reimagining for Walt Disney Studios. Questlove will also serve as executive producer while overseeing the music for the film. The script was written by Will Gluck
and Keith Bunin. Tarik “Black Thought” Trotter, Shawn Gee, and Zarah Zohlman will executive produce on behalf of Two One Five Entertainment.Questlove gave a statement to Pitchfork regarding the upcoming project:
“During those first months of the pandemic back in 2020,
amp_ad_1 ampforwp-incontent-custom-banner ampforwp-incontent-ad2">This news comes after the announcement of Questlove’s latest business venture, AUWA Books, which will publish fiction and nonfiction on various topics. The Roots mainstay will serve as the imprint’s publisher and editor-in-chief.
The first book, a memoir by reclusive funk-rock giant Sly Stone, entitled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), will be released October 17.