Emma Stone to star in Disney's 'Cruella'

*ranger_scout* · 12-05-2018, 04:42 PM

Following the success of Maleficent, Disney is working on an origin story of another classic Disney villain, Cruella de Vil. Oscar winner Emma Stone is set to portray the iconic character in the film, which will be set in the punk era of the 1980's. Right now I, Tonya director is in talks to helm the picture. I don't think there needs to be another film about Cruella, but Stone is a fantastic actress. She does have big shoes to fill because Glenn Close did an outstanding job playing the character in 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...rector-1166394

*ProactiveMan* · 12-05-2018, 06:29 PM

Let me guess, she was pushed into a life of puppy skinning self obsession by some meanie and so her tyrannical behavior isn't really her fault.

*CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy* · 12-05-2018, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

Let me guess, she was pushed into a life of puppy skinning self obsession by some meanie and so her tyrannical behavior isn't really her fault.

It was her husband's fault.

Or her father's.

*Andrew NDB* · 02-19-2019, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

Let me guess, she was pushed into a life of puppy skinning self obsession by some meanie and so her tyrannical behavior isn't really her fault.

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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

It was her husband's fault.

Or her father's.

Yeah. Evil white males, no matter what it ends up being.

*Utrommaniac* · 12-05-2018, 07:47 PM

So...this is live-action movies Cruella? The same one who responded to Anita's pregnancy (and her dog's pregnancy) by suggesting it was an accident? (Well...certainly unplanned, but not unwelcomed).

But yeah, Maleficent was a questionable enough villain to make "sympathetic". It's the reason why Team Starkid made "Twisted" (though I would rather watch a theatrical version of that than this).
And even in that, the other "misunderstood villains of stories" could not comprehend Cruella!

I could see a movie about Ursula working. Or Captain Hook. But leave the "curses a baby because she wasn't invited to a party" and "wants a coat made out of dogs so badly she'll have some of them stolen out of her employee's home, right after she's already had a white tiger poached from inside a zoo" villains outside of sympathetic light. Of course, it wasn't just the spots that she was so enamored with, but how soft puppy fur is. I'm pretty sure in the live action she did try to go after Perdita first until she realized that her fur was coarse and inflexible. But y'know...still going after her friend and employee's pet and insulting her every life choice along the way from marriage to parenthood.
"Banished to the outskirts of the kingdom by a ruler who may or may not be her brother" and "trapped on a magic island pestered by a violent prepubescent boy who adamantly refuses to become an adult and cuts off his hand as a prank" (good way to hit closer to the sadist that is book!Peter).

Some characters are better off truly being villains. And even when you add the sympathetic edges, you can't deviate from the path.

Also once again, Disney is preferring to make a live action movie over an animated movie. Great.

~~Leo656~~ · 12-05-2018, 09:20 PM

Yeah, I'm not at all a fan of the modern approach of, "All 'villains' are really just misunderstood'." It's nonsense. Some people are simply Bad People, and if you don't believe that, you really need to meet more people.

By all means, though, let's try and find empathy for the woman who wants to skin puppies an' sh*t.

Other movies do it too, but it's just... I know a lot of "Bad People", some of them since birth, and they were always like that. Stop giving kids the idea that it's all just a matter of perspective.

*Candy Kappa* · 12-06-2018, 03:08 AM

In Maleficent's case, she isn't evil per se, she's just a Fey. And when the King invited everyone to the christening except her, of course she reacted as she did. The movie should have centered around the trauma of not being invited

Glenn Close just is Cruella de Vil to me, but I think Emma Stone can pull it off. Hopefully they'll fool us after Maleficent and have a movie about a ambitious woman that's just bad from the start.

*Utrommaniac* · 12-06-2018, 03:17 AM

Yeah, you don't really need that much more story on her than that. Especially when she had previously been, and gleefully been, malicious. The fact that they tried to make her story have an analogue for rape was, shall I say, making a thematic fetish out of other people's trauma. And yeah, while I get that people related...that was the wrong fvcking story to tell it with.

And...then there's the fact that they basically had to knock down the competence of the Three Good Fairies, who in my opinion, were the true stars of Sleeping Beauty. They were the most active, they had the most lines, they did the most to change things for the story, they realized they made mistakes. They may have bickered among each other, but...that's just a classic housemates situation.

(And when your name is MALEFICENT, where else can you go?)

Just freakin' let her be an scary elegant green lady who fvcks around with people for fun and then shows what she's made of when she's slighted.

I feel like to some extent, it was trying to ride the Wicked hype train several years too late. And didn't even quite do it right.

There's some point where I hope that Cruella could just have been bad from the start, but there's no way. They have to give her a "sad and sympathetic backstory uwu "

*ranger_scout* · 12-10-2018, 01:07 PM

After it was reported that this will be an 80's punk rock origin story I immediately remembered something. In the Glenn Close film, after Cruella saw Anita's drawings of a spotted fur coat, she said that she did leopard spots in the 80's. If this is going to be a prequel to the 1996 film, I'd imagine we're going to see what gave Cruella the idea to do that for her fashion line. Maybe she had a horrible experience with a leopard.

https://insidethemagic.net/2018/12/e...-origin-story/

*ranger_scout* · 02-20-2019, 09:56 PM

Clearly Disney liked what Craig Gillespie did for someone who universally despised by the public in Neon's I, Tonya and want him to try to the same for an iconic villain like Cruella de Vil. Mostly everyone viewed Tonya Harding as a villain, but Gillespie wanted people to at least know that her life was very tough growing up and she might not have been as bad as we thought and show at least a little bit of sympathy for her. I never liked Harding as a person, but if that was what her early life was like then that's too bad. Cruella has always been a uniquely entertaining villain and it's going to be strange to try to make feel bad for her.

*ranger_scout* · 03-12-2019, 03:50 PM

Nicole Kidman is reportedly being eyed to play a Baroness who is responsible for turning Cruella into the villainous character we all known her as.

https://movieweb.com/cruella-movie-n...illain-disney/

*Utrommaniac* · 03-12-2019, 08:03 PM

*CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy* · 03-12-2019, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ranger_scout

Nicole Kidman is reportedly being eyed to play a Baroness who is responsible for turning Cruella into the villainous character we all known her as.

https://movieweb.com/cruella-movie-n...illain-disney/

Not the husband or the father? Seriously?

Damn. Points for creativity, I guess?

*Utrommaniac* · 03-12-2019, 08:58 PM

This is Disney, she's probably a step mother

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 03-12-2019, 10:54 PM

Or a mentor, maybe? With a highly questionable sense of ethics?

*frank_one* · 03-23-2021, 07:34 PM

That trailer is so... irritating.

*ranger_scout* · 03-23-2021, 08:03 PM

Here's what the hybrid release of this movie along with Black Widow's means to exhibitors.

Disney’s Day-And-Date ‘Black Widow’ & ‘Cruella’ Decision Creates Aftershock In Industry Aching For Box Office Normalcy

It will also be the second live-action film based on a Disney cartoon to receive a PG-13 rating after Mulan.

Why Disney's Cruella With Emma Stone Will Be PG-13

*ranger_scout* · 04-01-2021, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Its Disney's Joker

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Originally Posted by AquaParade

I don't think you can come anywhere near "Joker" under Disney, but that was instantly cemented in as the shorthand for this movie and probably won't die anytime soon.

Well, Emma Stone and the film's director actually believe this movie is different from Joker.

https://ew.com/movies/emma-stone-cru...r-comparisons/

Nicholas Britell is also going to serve as the movie's composer.

https://thedisinsider.com/2021/03/31...score-cruella/

12-05-2018, 04:42 PM	#1
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	Emma Stone to star in Disney's 'Cruella' Following the success of *Maleficent, Disney is working on an origin story of another classic Disney villain, Cruella de Vil. Oscar winner Emma Stone is set to portray the iconic character in the film, which will be set in the punk era of the 1980's. Right now I, Tonya* director is in talks to helm the picture. I don't think there needs to be another film about Cruella, but Stone is a fantastic actress. She does have big shoes to fill because Glenn Close did an outstanding job playing the character in *101 Dalmatians* and *102 Dalmatians*. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...rector-1166394

12-05-2018, 06:29 PM	#2
ProactiveMan Spooky ghost Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Western Australia Posts: 2,266	Let me guess, she was pushed into a life of puppy skinning self obsession by some meanie and so her tyrannical behavior isn't really her fault. __________________ ProactiveMan!

12-05-2018, 07:47 PM	#5
Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	So...this is live-action movies Cruella? The same one who responded to Anita's pregnancy (and her dog's pregnancy) by suggesting it was an accident? (Well...certainly unplanned, but not unwelcomed). But yeah, Maleficent was a questionable enough villain to make "sympathetic". It's the reason why Team Starkid made "Twisted" (though I would rather watch a theatrical version of that than this). And even in that, the other "misunderstood villains of stories" could not comprehend Cruella! I could see a movie about Ursula working. Or Captain Hook. But leave the "curses a baby because she wasn't invited to a party" and "wants a coat made out of dogs so badly she'll have some of them stolen out of her employee's home, right after she's already had a white tiger poached from inside a zoo" villains outside of sympathetic light. Of course, it wasn't just the spots that she was so enamored with, but how soft puppy fur is. I'm pretty sure in the live action she did try to go after Perdita first until she realized that her fur was coarse and inflexible. But y'know...still going after her friend and employee's pet and insulting her every life choice along the way from marriage to parenthood. "Banished to the outskirts of the kingdom by a ruler who may or may not be her brother" and "trapped on a magic island pestered by a violent prepubescent boy who adamantly refuses to become an adult and cuts off his hand as a prank" (good way to hit closer to the sadist that is book!Peter). Some characters are better off truly being villains. And even when you add the sympathetic edges, you can't deviate from the path. Also once again, Disney is preferring to make a live action movie over an animated movie. Great. __________________ DeviantART Last edited by Utrommaniac; 12-05-2018 at 08:09 PM.

12-06-2018, 03:08 AM	#7
Candy Kappa The Agenda of Existing Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vikingland Posts: 14,596	In Maleficent's case, she isn't evil per se, she's just a Fey. And when the King invited everyone to the christening except her, of course she reacted as she did. The movie should have centered around the trauma of not being invited Glenn Close just is Cruella de Vil to me, but I think Emma Stone can pull it off. Hopefully they'll fool us after Maleficent and have a movie about a ambitious woman that's just bad from the start. __________________ devianArt Instagram Youtube Tumblr Art Blog Patreon

12-06-2018, 03:17 AM	#8
Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	Yeah, you don't really need that much more story on her than that. Especially when she had previously been, and gleefully been, malicious. The fact that they tried to make her story have an analogue for rape was, shall I say, making a thematic fetish out of other people's trauma. And yeah, while I get that people related...that was the wrong fvcking story to tell it with. And...then there's the fact that they basically had to knock down the competence of the Three Good Fairies, who in my opinion, were the true stars of Sleeping Beauty. They were the most active, they had the most lines, they did the most to change things for the story, they realized they made mistakes. They may have bickered among each other, but...that's just a classic housemates situation. (And when your name is *MALEFICENT*, where else can you go?) Just freakin' let her be an scary elegant green lady who fvcks around with people for fun and then shows what she's made of when she's slighted. I feel like to some extent, it was trying to ride the Wicked hype train several years too late. And didn't even quite do it right. There's some point where I hope that Cruella could just have been bad from the start, but there's no way. They have to give her a "sad and sympathetic backstory uwu " __________________ DeviantART

12-05-2018, 09:20 PM	#6
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Yeah, I'm not at all a fan of the modern approach of, "All 'villains' are really just misunderstood'." It's nonsense. Some people are simply Bad People, and if you don't believe that, you really need to meet more people. By all means, though, let's try and find empathy for the woman who wants to skin puppies an' sh*t. Other movies do it too, but it's just... I know a lot of "Bad People", some of them since birth, and they were always like that. Stop giving kids the idea that it's all just a matter of perspective.

12-10-2018, 01:07 PM	#9
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	After it was reported that this will be an 80's punk rock origin story I immediately remembered something. In the Glenn Close film, after Cruella saw Anita's drawings of a spotted fur coat, she said that she did leopard spots in the 80's. If this is going to be a prequel to the 1996 film, I'd imagine we're going to see what gave Cruella the idea to do that for her fashion line. Maybe she had a horrible experience with a leopard. https://insidethemagic.net/2018/12/e...-origin-story/

02-20-2019, 09:56 PM	#10
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	Clearly Disney liked what Craig Gillespie did for someone who universally despised by the public in Neon's *I, Tonya* and want him to try to the same for an iconic villain like Cruella de Vil. Mostly everyone viewed Tonya Harding as a villain, but Gillespie wanted people to at least know that her life was very tough growing up and she might not have been as bad as we thought and show at least a little bit of sympathy for her. I never liked Harding as a person, but if that was what her early life was like then that's too bad. Cruella has always been a uniquely entertaining villain and it's going to be strange to try to make feel bad for her.

03-12-2019, 03:50 PM	#11
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	Nicole Kidman is reportedly being eyed to play a Baroness who is responsible for turning Cruella into the villainous character we all known her as. https://movieweb.com/cruella-movie-n...illain-disney/

03-12-2019, 08:03 PM	#12
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Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	This is Disney, she's probably a step mother __________________ DeviantART

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03-23-2021, 07:34 PM	#16
frank_one Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern Europe Posts: 2,254	That trailer is so... irritating.

03-23-2021, 08:03 PM	#17
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	Here's what the hybrid release of this movie along with Black Widow's means to exhibitors. Disney’s Day-And-Date ‘Black Widow’ & ‘Cruella’ Decision Creates Aftershock In Industry Aching For Box Office Normalcy It will also be the second live-action film based on a Disney cartoon to receive a PG-13 rating after *Mulan*. Why Disney's Cruella With Emma Stone Will Be PG-13