Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
Cruella de Vil is coming back to the big screen, but this time we’re finding out how the notorious dognapper actually became the
101 Dalmatiansvillain.
Emma Stone (
La La Land) playing a young version of the future fur fashionista, and she’ll be accompanied by a new original song by the Grammy-nominated
Florence and The Machine. Hear the song below, along with some new footage from Cruella.
Entitled “Call Me Cruella,” the full song will be released on
May 21 as part of the original motion picture soundtrack and score albums for
Cruella. The song has all the trademarks of a song by Florence and The Machine, who you may have previously heard in films like
This book has haunted me for a large part of my life, Welch said in a statement. It contains some of my favourite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song. Photo: Handout
Florence Welch will journey into the Jazz Age for her new musical project, one that will offer up fortune seekers and flappers, rum runners and rich dilettantes, self-made men and high society standard bearers.
In short, it s F. Scott Fitzgerald s glittering masterwork,
Florence Welch will be bringing her own musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel,
The Great Gatsby, to the stage because the book is now in the public domain and that means winner takes all.
The musical will be led by Welch, best known as the leading force behind the Grammy-nominated Florence + the Machine, and producer Thomas Bartlett.
Variety, Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok will write the book, and the show will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall, Jeanie O’Hare will be the story consultant, and Len Blavatnik and Amanda Ghost will produce for Unigram in association with Robert Fox.