Ice Cube & ‘Hamilton’ Director Team Up On Disney’s ‘Oliver Twist’

Oliver Twist will include a combination of musical styles.

Ice Cube, Wicked producer Marc Platt and Hamilton director Thomas Kail are teaming up with Disney Studios to create a contemporary musical take on Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist.

Oliver Twist – Dickens’ second and most famous novel – tells the story of an orphan boy who starts his life in a workhouse, is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker, and later escapes to join a gang of juvenile pickpockets.

The tale has been adapted many times into stage plays and films, including the 1968 movie musical Oliver! and 1988’s animated film Oliver and Company.

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Platt, Jeff Kwatinetz (The Firm) and Cube (Cube Vision) are all on board to produce. Cube is also attached to play Fagin, the elderly leader of the pickpockets, in the present-day musical – which is said to cross “many genres, including hip-hop.”

The former co-founder of seminal rap group N.W.A turned actor and producer most recently produced Straight Outta Compton and Ride Along 2.

Kail (Grease Live!) is in negotiations to direct.