Disney has been going hard on the live-action remakes of its animated movies over the last several years but one of the side effects of that is that eventually, after you’ve remade all the movies that everybody loves, eventually you’re going to get to the movies that maybe aren’t quite as well known. We’ve apparently hit that point, as Disney has reportedly tapped Questlove to helm an adaptation of The Aristocats, which is an intriguing choice for him given the movie's history.
Of the 61 movies produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1937 it’s possible that 1970’s The Aristocats might be the one that is the most overlooked. It was the first film released that Walt Disney had no direct involvement, and is often seen as the beginning of a dark period in the history of Disney animation that lasted until the release of The Little Mermaid in 1989 which began the Disney Renaissance.
