PREVIEW: Cruella (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Emma Stone (La La Land), Emma Thompson (Late Night), Joel Fry (Yesterday), Paul Walter Hauser (Richard Jewell), Emily Beecham (Little Joe), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (A Dog’s Purpose), Mark Strong (Shazam!), Jamie Demetriou (Paddington 2)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), director; Dana Fox (How to Be Single) and Tony McNamara (The Favourite), writers; Kristin Burr (Christopher Robin), Andrew Gunn (Race to Witch Mountain) and Marc Platt (Mary Poppins Returns), producers; Nicholas Britell (Moonlight), composer; Nicolas Karakatsanis (Triple 9), cinematographer; Tatiana S. Riegel (Lars and the Real Girl), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1970s London, young grifter and aspiring fashion designer Estella (Stone) catches the eye of fashion legend Baroness von Hellman (Thompson), sparking a relationship that sets into motion a series of events that sees Estella, along with her thieving friends Jasper (Fry) and Horace (Hauser), embrace her wicked side and become the devilish, fashionable legend known as Cruella de Vil…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

One of Disney’s most evil – and certainly most stylish – villains, Cruella de Vil, gets a mischievous and characteristically devilish origin story that paints the beloved character in a whole new light.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND ON DISNEY+ PREMIER ACCESS

 

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