Emma Thompson in Talks to Join Emma Stone in Disney’s

Emma Thompson is in talks to hitch “Cruella,” the live-action Cruella de Vil film starring Emma Stone, a person with data of the venture instructed TheWrap. Thompson’s function is being stored beneath wraps.

“I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie is ready to direct. Gillespie beforehand directed the movies “Million Dollar Arm” and “The Finest Hours” for Disney. Tony McNamara wrote the latest draft of the script. Marc Platt and Andrew Gunn are producing the movie. Disney has slated to “Cruella” open on Dec. 23, 2020.

Stone will star in what’s pegged as one thing of a prequel to “101 Dalmatians” as a younger Cruella earlier than she schemed to pores and skin the black-and-white noticed puppies for her fur coat.

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Glenn Close beforehand performed the black-and-white-haired Cruella in a 1996 live-action adaptation based mostly on the 1961 animated basic and in its sequel, “102 Dalmatians.”

Should the deal shut, “Cruella” would mark the third time Thompson has taken a task in one among Disney’s live-action diversifications. Thompson beforehand performed Mrs. Potts in 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast,” and in addition performed “Mary Poppins” writer P.L. Travers in “Saving Mr. Banks.”

Next up, Thompson shall be seen in Amazon Studios comedy “Late Night” and Sony’s “Men in Black: International.”

Thomspon is repped by CAA and Hamilton Hodell.

Variety first reported the information.