Whereas Disney scored an enormous live-action remake win this summer time with Lilo & Sew, plainly the Home of Mouse is continuous to trim down its future line-up of reworkings of its animated Classics library. Together with the upcoming launch of Moana, and a sequel to Lilo & Sew, a number of different films have been in varied phases of growth in the previous couple of years, however solely a handful are nonetheless in rivalry to make it into manufacturing. One which has now lastly been put in its field for good is The Aristocats, as Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson has confirmed that the film is not taking place.
Together with quite a few different tasks like Hercules and Bambi, Disney introduced that they’d be growing a brand new live-action/CGI hybrid reimagining of their 1970 animated characteristic, The Aristocats, a narrative concerning the adventures of a Parisian household of cats kidnapped by a conniving butler intent on claiming an enormous inheritance meant to be left to the animals. In March 2023, it was introduced that Questlove could be directing the undertaking, in addition to appearing as government producer and overseeing the music of the film, with Peter Rabbit scribe Will Gluck and Onward scriptwriter Keith Bunin writing.
Nevertheless, the reveal of the film’s preliminary crew is the one actual replace the film has acquired within the two years since. Whereas this might make some already imagine the undertaking was in hassle, not each film will get frequent updates, so nobody assumed that the movie had been ditched. Nevertheless, throughout an look on Rating: The Podcast, Questlove confirmed that, so far as he’s involved, The Aristocats undertaking shouldn’t be taking place.
“A brand new administration got here in, after which I used to be like, ‘Okay, properly, that is what I plan to do, and dadada, do the track and dance, and right here’s among the music examples and there’s some crew I’m working with dadada’. After which that they had one other administration shuffle, and it was like, “Okay properly. All proper.” And by the third time I used to be identical to, “Possibly this isn’t meant for me, as a result of there’s additionally, no less than, like proper now, there’s a lot choices I’ve in pickings.”
Might ‘The Aristocats’ Nonetheless Occur within the Future?
Disney is all the time going to want new content material, and so long as they’ve films of their Classics vault which have but to be “reimagined” there may be all the time an opportunity that these films may have some type of new model made in some unspecified time in the future. For Questlove, it looks as if he has loads of different tasks to contemplate whereas Disney flips and flops round The Aristocats, however he has not utterly shut the door on a future collaboration.
“I imply, I might have liked to have carried out that undertaking, however there’s like 20 others that I can get to […] there’s actually 4 different movies. I’ll be working until, , 2029, 2030. So, simply wasn’t meant to occur. Possibly it’ll occur sooner or later.”
Disney is about to launch their live-action tackle Moana in 2026, and Lilo & Sew 2 is predicted in 2027 or 2028. Which different live-action remakes be a part of them is one thing we are able to solely wait and see, however after disappointments like Snow White and The Little Mermaid, it’s clear that many questions are being requested about which films are price pursuing and which aren’t.
The Aristocats
- Launch Date
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December 24, 1970
- Runtime
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78 minutes
- Director
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Wolfgang Reitherman
