Disney goes
punk with
Cruella in
the style of
We s t w o o d
By Robbie Collin
CHIEF FILM CRITIC
WHETHER embodied by
Glenn Close or animated by
Walt Disney Studios, Cruella
de Vil has always been one of
cinema’s most chic villain-
esses. But a new version of
the 101 Dalmatians charac-
ter, played by the La La Land
actress Emma Stone, will
bring a blitz of Vivienne
Westwood-style punk rock
panache to her notorious
wardrobe.
Stone will star as the
young De Vil in the forth-
coming Disney film Cruella,
which was unveiled on Sat-
urday at the studio’s biennial
D23 Expo in Anaheim, Cali-
fornia. The film, which is
scheduled for release in
2021, will be set in London in
the Seventies, a decade after
the release of the original
Disney animation – although
like Maleficent, it will ex-
plore the character’s origins
from a sympathetic perspec-
tive. A first production still,
taken on the UK set last
week, shows Stone’s Cruella
in a striking monochrome
ensemble and two-tone
perm, holding three Dalma-
tians on leads and flanked by
two henchmen, played by
Paul Walter Hauser and Joel
Fry. Emma Thompson will
star alongside Stone as an as-
yet-unnamed baroness.
Cruella’s costumes have
been designed by Jenny Bea-
van, a two-time Oscar win-
ner, who took over as the
costume designer on the
Mad Max film series from
‘MeToo gave me a say
on explicit TV scene’
By Helena Horton
THE lead actress in the
BBC’s new police thriller –
billed as the “new Body-
guard” and written by two
women – said she only
agreed to do a bedroom
scene in the opening epi-
sode because the director
asked for her opinion first.
Holliday Grainger is set to
take the main role in The
Capture, a six-part surveil-
lance thriller that begins
next month.
The show will tell the
story of an innocent
man falsely accused in
the “post-truth” era.
Grainger, who has
mostly appeared in
period dramas, told
the Mail on
Sunday:
“There’s a
bedroom
scene at the
beginning of
The Capture,
and part of
me was
thinking, ‘Oh
here we go,
are we really
going to in-
troduce my
female char-
acter with a
sex scene?’
“I’d nor-
mally put
my foot down and say, ‘I’m
not getting naked in the first
episode.’ But the fact that
Ben [Chanan, writer-direc-
tor] wanted my opinion is a
sign of positive change.
“It’s significant that he
came to me and said, ‘Is it too
much?’ Pre-MeToo we might
not have even been having
that conversation.”
The 31-year-old, who is
playing Det Insp Rachel
Carey, thinks the show will
be as gripping as Bodyguard,
which fascinated the na-
tion last year.
She said: “No one
could foresee the suc-
cess of Bodyguard,
but the moment I
saw the script for
The Capture I knew
it had that certain
something. It’s a
production I
would defi-
nitely want to
watch.”
Grainger will
star alongside
Callum Turner,
who starred in
War and Peace,
and will play
soldier Shaun
Emery, whose
conviction for
murder while
serving in Afghan-
istan is over-
turned.News
Emma Stone
sports a chic
edgy look as
the young De
Vil in Cruella,
flanked by
Paul Walter
Hauser and
Joel FryEmma Stone cast as
the classic villainess
as a young socialite
for new prequel
u Maleficent: Mistress of
Evil: sequel to the 2014
film (Oct 18, 2019)
u Frozen 2: The sequel to
the runaway animated
film (Nov 22, 2019)
u Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker:
the ninth episode in the
Star Wars saga (Dec 2019)
u Mulan: A live-action
reimagining of the 1998
film (March 27, 2020)
u Black Widow: An
Avengers spin-off
(April 2020)
u Black Panther 2: A
sequel to the hit film set
in Wakanda (May 2020)
u Cruella: A revisiting
of 101 Dalmations
(2021)
Spin-off season
Disney’s latestNorma Moriceau, who col-
laborated with Westwood
and Malcolm McLaren in the
Seventies. Further enhanc-
ing the film’s fashion pedi-
gree is Aline Brosh McKenna,
its lead writer, whose
screenplay for The Devil
Wears Prada was Bafta-nom-
inated in 2007.
A more classical elegance
was on show in an extended
preview of Frozen II, which
will arrive in cinemas world-
wide this November. The
film’s plot will straddle the
original’s to form what co-
director Chris Buck de-
scribed as “one complete
story”.
The Westworld actress
Evan Rachel Wood will
voice the royal sisters’
mother, Queen Iduna.
Pete Docter, Pixar’s new
chief creative officer, has
vowed to refocus the anima-
tion house’s output on origi-
nal ideas. The Inside Out
director introduced Soul, a
“cartoon about metaphys-
ics” in which the soul of a
music teacher and aspiring
jazz musician is taken back
into the cosmos to an ab-
stract realm where human
personalities and passions
are shaped.
Docter also introduced a
second Pixar film, Onward,
in which two elf brothers
voiced by Tom Holland and
Chris Pratt go in search of a
magic gem that will allow
them to spend a day with
their late father, who died
early in their childhood. A
third original animated film,
Raya and the Last Dragon,
scripted by Adele Lim was
revealed to be in the works
at Walt Disney Animated
Studios.
No new Star Wars projects
were announced to follow
the release of The Rise of Sky-
walker this Christmas.
The Lucasfilm franchise
will focus on its television
productions, including a
forthcoming series centred
on Ewan McGregor’s Obi-
Wan Kenobi and an eight-
episode western-style
frontier drama called The
Mandalorian.
The Marvel Studios pres-
entation culminated with a
screening of the trailer for
the forthcoming Black
Widow film, starring Scarlett
Johansson and Florence
Pugh as two Russian secret
agents who clash in Buda-
pest.
Nine members of the en-
semble cast of the studio’s
forthcoming space opera
Eternals also took to the
stage, including Angelina
Jolie, Salma Hayek,
Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan,
and Richard Madden.Stone
willbring a
blitz of
punkrock
panacheto the
role of
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