Disney Is Giving The Aristocats The Live-Action Treatment

Here’s a novel idea: a live-action movie about talking cats.

Even better? It’s a live-action Disney remake!Disney is going back to the well of its 1970s animated slump with a live-action remake of “The Aristocats.” The original film, which Wolfgang Reitherman directed between “The Jungle Book” and “Robin Hood,” centered on cats in Paris who stand to inherit money until their owner’s butler kidnaps them and strands them in the French countryside.Deadline reports that a live-action take on “The Aristocats” is indeed in development.

Things are still in the early stages, but writer-director Will Gluck and screenwriter Keith Bunin are attached to it and will pen the script. Gluck has a…The post Disney is Giving The Aristocats the Live-Action Treatment appeared first on /Film.

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