This is not your grandmother’s Cruella de Vil.
Social media is confused about new details about the highly anticipated “Cruella,” Disney’s latest live action adaptation of the animated classic “101 Dalmatians,” thanks in particular to Emma Stone’s fierce transformation as the nefarious fashionista with a penchant for spotted dogs.
“Hello, Cruel World,” Disney said, in a tweet announcing that a trailer for “Cruella” will be coming tomorrow. A new poster for the film features a close-up of sultry Stone, 32, in black and white, in a style reminiscent of Madonna’s glam punk days or rock opera icon Dr. Frank-N-Furter from ‘Rocky Horror Picture Let see.”
In a 2019 promotional image for the film, which will tell Cruella’s backstory and set in the 1970s, Stone is dressed to kill in leather, belts and with the character’s iconic black and white mane – and fans beg for more since.
The moment also gave a number of fans an opportunity to praise Glenn Close, who thousands of fans agreed on Twitter was “actually perfect” as Cruella in the 1996 live-action remake of the original 1961 cartoon film.
Others had clues to Disney prior to the trailer’s release.
“If the Cruella trailer doesn’t feature a children’s choir singing a haunting, slowed-down cover version of a particular Baha Men song, what are we actually doing here?” Argued Stephen Douglass, a sports writer whose hilarious suggestion has garnered support for nearly 6,000 others on Twitter in just an hour since Disney made the announcement.
The crime comedy, which will be released in May, was directed by “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie and also stars Emma Thompson and Paul Walter Hauser (“I, Tonya”). It follows the story of young fashion designer Estella de Vil and as her dog fur obsession begins to grow, she is nicknamed the Cruella nickname.