Oscar winner Questlove will direct The Aristocats and oversee the music for the live-action reimagining Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

Disney is going hip-hop! According to Deadline, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is slated to direct the remake of the 1970 Disney movie The Aristocats. The news comes more than a year after ...

Described as a hybrid mix between live-action and CGI, Aristocats will feature a script from Will Gluck and Keith Bunin. It marks Questlove’s directorial debut in a feature film as he revives ...

Since then, Thompson had been weighing his options of what made sense when it came to directing a feature film, ultimately landing on Aristocats. He is repped by WME and manager Shawn Gee.

In late March, the news broke that Oscar Award-winning musician Questlove was set to direct Disney’s live-action remake of The Aristocats. Originally released as an animated movie in 1970 ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the Oscar-winning director of “Summer of Soul,” is helming a remake of “The Aristocats” for Disney. Similar to “Sonic the Hedgehog” or “Space Jam ...