Disney feeds The Aristocats into its live-action remake machine

Although it’s generally seen as lesser Disney these days, The Aristocats was a decent-sized hit back in the ’70s—especially in Europe, where it takes place. The company is presumably hoping to keep that magic alive 52 years later with this live-action version, which follows last year’s Cruella, and next year’s The Little Mermaid, in the long line of in-person (and usually CGI-heavy) adaptations of the company’s library.

Scripting duties on the film are being handled by Will Gluck, who recently directed both of the Peter Rabbit movies, and by Keith Bunin, who helped pen Onward for Pixar. (Also: Several episodes of the recent In Treatment revival, which we can only assume will impact the writing here.)

And, really, we can’t decide which we’re more excited for right now: A modern revamp of the plot of the original, in which a humble domestic servant does some slightly morally questionable things to the titular cats after learning he is second to a crew of animals in his employer’s succession plans, or the inevitable pop remix of “Ev’rybody Wants To Be A Cat.” (Minus, presumably, the bit with the racist “Chinese” cat.)

Meanwhile, plans to make an animated adaptation of The Aristocrats, as a sort of elaborate role-reversal scheme, are moving forward only in our minds, where we can assure you that they’re completely horrifying.