>Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming 100 DALMATIANS' live-action prequel spinoff CRUELLA, directed by Craig Gillespie ("I, Tonya") and starring Emma Stone ("The Favorite"), is eyeing Dev Patel ("Lion") and Nicole Kidman ("Destroyer") for major supporting roles.
>Set in 1970's London, the movie chronicles how Cruella De Vil, an orphan living on streets with other downthrodden hoodlums, rose to become a wealthy, but cold-hearted fashion industry mogul, and how life on the streets shaped her hatred of dalmatians.
>Patel is in talks for the role of Raj, a "figure from Cruella's past" and the owner of the mischievous dalmatian Pogo, while Kidman is being eyed for The Baroness, "a wealthy aristocrat who antagonizes young Cruella and is pivotal in her transformation to the villain we know today". Charlize Theron ("Long Shot"), Julianne Moore ("Gloria Bell"), Demi Moore ("Animals") and Emma Thompson ("Late Night") are also up for the role.
>Casting is also underway for Cruella's bumbling fellow orphans turned enforcers, Jasper and Horace, who will be played by an African-American actor and a Caucasian actor, respectively.
I can't wait to see the pieces of shit that'll somehow be more evil than the woman that wanted to skin 100 puppies to make Cruella seem not as bad by comparison.
Brody Thomas
quintessentially british
Nathan Scott
Why the fuck does anyone want to give Cruella a tragic & complex backstory? She wants to skin puppies for clothing. That's it. There's no deep psychological meaning behind it. Cruella is just a vain, wrathful villainess. Can't she be evil for the sake of being evil?
Ayden Sullivan
>Everyone: Why would anyone make this completely unnecessary movie? >Disney execs:
I always thought 100 puppies for a coat seemed odd, like it wouldn't take that many for a single coat would it?
Jaxon Scott
Man I'm not even sure 100 puppies would work for a full coat, especially not one that Curella clearly lies to wear, with so much flair, someone should do the math
>trying to explain a psycopath >end up making her sympathetic >make a person who skins dogs for clothing sympathetic While they're at it, why not give a movie about Hitler's youth a go? Fucking dumbasses, I swear. They're trying hard to make all their villains sympathetic instead of just letting them be the assholes they are
Wyatt Myers
absolutely forgot about this thing
Oliver Thomas
The second one was so goddamn underwhelming. Having seen the first one in the theater as a kid, I was hyped for the second one. Turned out it was forgettable as fuck, don't remember a single thing except a scene taking place in a factory or something. Fuck that movie
Oliver Davis
People aren't born evil.
Hudson Sullivan
>why not give a movie about Hitler's youth a go?
There's already been a few, you fucking idiot.
Daniel Ward
Where they paint him in a sympathetic light? Learn some basic reading comprehension, you dolt
Probably the worst idea for a film I've ever seen.
Austin Jenkins
You can be depicted as a sympathetic youth before you get radicalized. Good storytelling is able to do that without whitewashing a genocidal lunatic of his future crimes.
Michael Allen
What's the problem? Don't tell me all of you in this thread are vegan?
Nolan Myers
My point is that >Hollywood is unable to generate new interesting characters >Hollywood is currently trying to paint all animated movie villains as sympathetic but would never try to do the same for IRL villains There's almost not a single movie showing people like Hitler as anything else but 100% psychos even if there's plenty of evidence that shows it wasn't so. I agree that good storytelling is able to do that but Hollywood is just incapable of doing just that
Samuel Green
Instead of choosing a villain who may have an actual reason for being evil (Scar being the pariah of his family while being called 'Trash' originally or Jafar dealing with an incompetent dictator and bratty princess while the people of Agrabah suffer in poverty) they chose the absolute WORST Disney villains to sympathize.
>Hades in normal mythology is actually a decent guy who lets Hercules borrow his dog and only has the hots for one chick in his life
>Frollo was a tortured man whose brother was a degenerate asshole that dumped his retard baby on him
>Captain Hook was fucking mutilated by Peter Pan
>Ursula was banished by Triton for reasons that a movie could actually get into
I don't get it, 101 Dalmatians is alright but Cruella is hardly a top tier Disney Villain.
Jack Garcia
What if she's just a bitch?
Noah Young
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's going to be very cheap to make compared to things like Jungle Book, Hercules, etc. Just a thought.
Evan Adams
Silly OP, April 1st was over a week ago. And of all the jokes to make. It's the memes people made when they were dumb enough to give Maleficent a tragic prequel. But it's still a solid gag worth a laugh.
Noah Bell
If they just run 90 minutes of puppies playing this will be fine. They are already fucking it up though. Who the fuck thought Cruella needed a backstory? Her name is Cruella De Vil for fuck's sake it says it all.
Nathaniel Bailey
And Maleficent is getting another film too.
Ian Gomez
Disney execs need multiple huge losses in a row and maybe a concussion to stop this shit show.
Lucas Taylor
Reminder that Cruella wanted to kill the puppies and use their fur as a canvas for a painting.
Lincoln Ramirez
Even other Disney villains think Cruella is fucking evil
Hans: I only wished to become a king myself Facilier: I only wished to not be poor anymore Sykes: I only wanted my money back Cruella de Vil: I only wished to have a coat made out of puppies. Maleficent: What the heck is wrong with you?
Alexander Nguyen
>Orphan becomes a mogul of fashion but at the cost of hating dalmatians >Koopathrali is the only comedy source >Kidman gives Cruella the lesson "beat fire with fire" by making her as mean as her >Jasper and Horace are also orphans
Last paragraph is deep considering the cartoon, but GODDAMIT THIS IS SO FUNNY I CAN'T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY
