Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is set to get a modern makeover from Disney with the help of Ice Cube and Tommy Kail, the director of the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton.
Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist is the latest classic to get the television treatment with NBC giving the contemporary take a script commitment. Joel Silver and Lionsgate are behind the adaptation with scribes Chad Damiani and J.P. Lavin penning the pilot.
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