Ice Cube Teams With Disney for New Oliver Twist Musical Film
By Sheldon Pearce.
Ice Cube has joined Disney’s new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will play Fagin, the adult ringleader of a gang of young pickpockets, in a modernization helmed by Hamilton director Thomas Kail. Cube is writing a treatment for the film with Jeff Kwatinetz. It will be co-produced by Cube, Kwatinetz, and Marc Platt (Wicked). Disney previously adapted the story as an animated film, 1988’s Oliver & Company. There is currently no timetable for the musical’s release.
Last year, Ice Cube co-produced the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton. In July, it was announced that he was producing a game show called “Hip Hop Squares” for VH1.
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