Disney has shelved its highly anticipated live-action remake of \u201cThe Aristocats.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Roots drummer and frontman Ahmir Khalib Thompson, better known as Questlove<\/a>, was set to direct the film based on the 1970 Disney classic. However, on the August 20 episode of \u201cScore: the Podcast,\u201d<\/a> he gave fans an update, revealing the remake is no longer happening.<\/p>\n The director and musician explained that the project was shelved due to multiple leadership changes at Disney. \u201cA new administration came in, and then I was like, \u2018Okay, well, this is what I plan to do…,\u2019\u201d Questlove recounted to hosts Robert Kraft and Kenny Holmes. He tried to get the project off the ground, but the administration shuffled twice more.<\/p>\n \u201cBy the third time I was just like, \u2018Maybe this isn\u2019t meant for me,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBecause there\u2019s also, at least, like right now, there\u2019s so much options I have in pickings.\u201d<\/p>\n The Academy Award winner added that while he \u201cwould have loved to have done that project,\u201d he has a full roster of other films to work on. \u201cI\u2019ll be working till, you know, 2029, 2030,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The original \u201cThe Aristocats\u201d film, which was voiced by Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, and others, follows a family of Parisian cats set to inherit a fortune from their owner. But when their owner\u2019s jealous butler kidnaps and abandons them in the countryside, they must team up with a smooth-talking tomcat to get back home before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n In the last decade, Disney has embarked on a spree of creating live-action remakes of its most iconic animated films. \u201cAladdin,\u201d \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d \u201cCinderella,\u201d \u201cDumbo,\u201d \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d \u201cThe Lion King,\u201d \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d and \u201cMulan\u201d have all received live-action adaptations.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney has shelved its highly anticipated live-action remake of \u201cThe Aristocats.\u201d The Roots drummer and frontman Ahmir Khalib…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[8471,88,206],"class_list":["post-119309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-detail","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}