"The Aristocats" Live-Action Adaptation Finds Its Director

Disney has tapped Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson to helm a live-action/hybrid reimaging of the 1970 classic animated movie “The Aristocats”.

Thompson will also executive produce and oversee the music for the movie.

A founding member of iconic Philadelphia hip hop band The Roots, the six-time Grammy winner made the jump into directing with his documentary "Summer of Soul".

The pic was centered around the 1969 Harlem Cultural festival and premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, taking home the Grand Jury Prize and beginning its run of accolades that would culminate at the 2022 Oscars.

Since then, Thompson had been weighing his options on what made sense when it came to directing a feature film, ultimately landing on "The Aristocats".

The reimaging for Walt Disney Studios. Director/screenwriter Will Gluck and “Onward” writer Keith Bunin will pen the script.

Gluck is also producing via his Olive Bridge Entertainment company. Tarik Trotter, Shawn Gee, and Zarah Zohlman will exec produce on behalf of Two One Five Entertainment.

"The Aristocats" centered around a family of aristocratic cats — mother Duchess and her three kittens Berlioz, Marie, and Toulouse — owned by a kindly heiress who intends to make her cats the sole inheritors of her estate.

When the heiress' butler finds out that the cats are set to receive a massive fortune, he kidnaps the cats and abandons the felines in the countryside, who befriend an alley cat, named Thomas O’Malley, to help them get home.

The adaptation will be created similarly to the 2019 adaptation of "The Lady and the Tramp".