Questlove to direct live-action adaptation of Disney’s The Aristocats

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, joint frontman of the hip-hop band the Roots and musical renaissance man, will direct an upcoming hybrid live-action adaptation of The AristocatsWalt Disney Studios. That’s right.

In a breaking news report that reads uncannily like a Mad Libs prompt, Deadline reported on Monday that Thompson, who won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at last year’s Academy Awards for Summer of SoulThe film’s music will be composed by. This script was written by The AristocatsRemake is by Simple A director-screenwriter Will Gluck and Keith Bunin, who wrote the screenplay for 2013’s Horns starring Daniel Radcliffe.

Thompson was reportedly considering several alternatives for his next project. Summer of Soul Before you settle on The AristocatsAs his first feature film director. It’s far from the first time Disney has snatched up an Oscar-winning director to helm a hybrid live-action adaptation of one of the studio’s beloved animated films, with Moonlight director Barry Jenkins currently working on a prequel to 2019’s The Lion King, titled “Mufasa: The Lion-King,” slated to be released in theaters next year.

Wolfgang Reitherman directs the animated 1970 musical. One Hundred, one Dalmatians’ fame, follows a family of Parisian house cats who learn they are set to inherit a large fortune from their elderly owner. When their owner’s envious butler schemes to defraud the cats from their inheritance, the feline family must join forces with a streetwise tomcat named Thomas O’Malley to beat the conniving butler at his own game.