🐱 ‘Cruella’ Sequel in the Works at Disney

‘Cruella’ Sequel in the Works at Disney (Exclusive)

Dalmatians are proving to be Disney’s new best friends. As Cruella heads into its second weekend, The Hollywood Reporter has learned the studio behind the Emma Stone starrer is in early devel…

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Dalmatians are proving to be Disney’s new best friends.

As Cruella heads into its second weekend, The Hollywood Reporter has learned the studio behind the Emma Stone-starrer is in early development on a sequel. Cruella director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Tony McNamara are expected to return for a sequel to the film that stars Stone as fan-favorite One Hundred and One Dalmatiansvillainess Cruella de Vil.

Cruella debuted May 28 simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ under the streaming service’s Premier Access tier, making it available to purchase for $30. The film has earned $48.5 million globally. It received positive reviews and has been praised for its 1970s punk rock aesthetic.

“We are very pleased with Cruella’s box office success, in conjunction with its strong Disney+ Premier Access performance to date,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement. “The film has been incredibly well received by audiences around the world, with a 97% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes in addition to A’s in every demographic from CinemaScore on opening weekend, ranking it among the most popular of our live-action reimaginings. We look forward to a long run as audiences continue to enjoy this fantastic film.”

Disney has found success mining its library of beloved animated features for live-action, starting with Alice in Wonderland (2010) and including Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent (2014), Cinderella(2015) and $1 billion grossers that include Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019) and The Lion King (2019). The studio isn’t done with its successful decade-plus strategy yet as it has live-action reimaginings Pinocchio, Peter Pan & Wendy and The Little Mermaid in the works.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Craig Gillespie, of Lars and The Real Girl fame, is who directed Cruella?

Lars and The Real Girl was a good movie, what happened?

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

>97% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes sold out so fucking hard. As if we're all supposed to believe that shitty current year films all have better scores than all the timeless top films of decades past.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Isn’t the sequel just 101 dalmations?
Am I retarded or are they?

 

[Jason Wynn]

Fucking Cruella has a higher score than movies like Silence of the Lambs, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and 2001 a Space Odyssey?

I want off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride...

 

[whatever I feel like]

So how do you make Cruella sympathetic anyway? Did Pongo maul her mother?

 

[Plague Dog]

So how do you make Cruella sympathetic anyway? Did Pongo maul her mother?

Short answer, yes.

No really, her mother was killed by Dalmatians.

You're welcome.

And it wasn't Pongo, it was his father(?) And Pongo and Perdita are apparently related so they're all inbred.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Short answer, yes.

No really, her mother was killed by Dalmatians.

You're welcome.

And it wasn't Pongo, it was his father(?) And Pongo and Perdita are apparently related so they're all inbred.

Well.... fuck.

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

>97% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes sold out so fucking hard. As if we're all supposed to believe that shitty current year films all have better scores than all the timeless top films of decades past.

I think nobody really watched the movie or cares about it enough to review it so it's only reviewed by shills who give top rating to anything Disney shits out.

 

[Plague Dog]

Well.... fuck.

 

[whatever I feel like]

https://youtu.be/sz6MvVotEMU

Those dogs are far less fat than any Dalmatian I've ever seen. Well, good hustle, Disney, I guess.

 

[Apotheosis of the Liver]

The film has earned $48.5 million globally.

Literally peanuts, the movie cost $200 million. Disney is loving that they can shit these things out online so the loss can be underwritten into the cost of disney+.

 

[雑音🐈]

Cruella debuted May 28 simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ under the streaming service’s Premier Access tier, making it available to purchase for $30.

I am shocked someone would pay this much to see any movie, let alone a Disney cashgrab. This is like when they spent years making terrible direct to video sequels to their classics, resulting in the lowest quality movies the company ever produced, except people pay more to see it than they would at a cinema.

 

[Immortal Technique]

Literally peanuts, the movie cost $200 million. Disney is loving that they can shit these things out online so the loss can be underwritten into the cost of disney+.

More embarassing they had to go to the "globally" number to mask how pathetic it did in the US.

 

[thismanlies]

So how do you make Cruella sympathetic anyway?

That was the biggest problem I had with the movie. It felt like Disney was trying to make a version of Joker that the journalists would find acceptable. Problem was, anyone who saw 101 Dalmatians knew Cruella was going to try and skin a bunch of puppies for a fur coat. There's no way to make that likeable. Go look at the comments section of any youtube video about an abused animal and see how quickly people would trade places with a guard at Auschwitz just for a chance to torture the abuser to death. There's no way to make Cruella likeable without destroying the canon.

Oh and also they made Anita Radcliffe black. Because, you know, yay diversity.

 

[Chilson]

>97% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes sold out so fucking hard. As if we're all supposed to believe that shitty current year films all have better scores than all the timeless top films of decades past.

Metacritic actually has a reasonable (still way to high) score of 7.3 by users and 5.9 by critics. Then again, considering the only people who watched this pile of shit are movie critics or Disney shills, that score may be accurate for that audience of smooth brains.

 

[verygayFrogs]

THEY FUCKING GIRLBOSSED A PUPPY SKINNER AND THOUGHT IT WAS COOL TO MAKE A SEQUEL

Thank god I'm leeching off of someone else's Disney+ then.

 

[Pixy]

I know that modern films are now designed to spawn sequels and spin-offs, but this sequel was manufactured from the beginning. Is this the faustian bargain we made in exchange for streaming services?

OTOH, this is just the natural evolution of direct-to-dvd sequels.

 

[Red Hood]

At this point Disney can pretty much fail anything upward.

 

[Valstrax]

THEY FUCKING GIRLBOSSED A PUPPY SKINNER AND THOUGHT IT WAS COOL TO MAKE A SEQUEL

Thank god I'm leeching off of someone else's Disney+ then.

Can't wait for the Movie Night where we laugh at this piece of garbage!