One of the various live-action Disney films currently in development has found a leader. Cruella, the origin story of 101 Dalmatians’ Cruella de Vil starring Emma Stone as the titular fur-wearing antagonist, has tapped Alex Timbers to direct.
Alex Timbers
Red Crown Productions is in development with Theater of War, a feature based on a story that was originally broadcast as a part of an episode of the venerable radio show-turned-popular podcast This American Life.
Fort Bragg army base was suffering a number of unnecessary deaths, so they decided to attempt to save soldiers’ lives through the art of musical theater.
The Pitch Perfect breakout will star in the Ben Stiller-produced comedy.
Broadway director on board for feature debut.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will revolve around Cruella De Vil.
Broadway musical director tapped to direct musical film.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as a re-imagining of “Much Ado About Nothing”
Logline: After accidentally killing his boss, a Macy’s salesman must figure out how to get rid of the psychotic female stalker who helped
dispose of the body and is blackmailing him into marriage.
Logline: A modern-day re-imagining of the classic “Romeo & Juliet” tale, but told from the perspective of Romeo’s former lover Rosaline.
Logline: A good boy named Milton Fauster dies with his shoplifting sister in a freak accident and ends up in Heck, an unearthly reform school. Milton meets Virgil, a boy who has a map of the Nine Circles of Heck, and the two plot to escape the netherworld and its leader, the principal of darkness Bea “Elsa” Bubb.
