Filmmaker Craig Gillespie on ‘Cruella’ and Why “We’re Culpable” in the ‘Pam & Tommy’ Story

Cruella director Craig Gillespie says he would tell every production head, 'We’re not making a Disney movie. Don’t think of this like a Disney film. Think of this like a coming-of-age punk story in London with all the grit'

stories. But now it’s hard to imagine anyone but the Australian filmmaker at the helm of

, which has been praised for its unique identity within Disney’s oeuvre. Gillespie, who’d previously worked with Disney’s president of production, Sean Bailey, on 2014’s, couldn’t resist Bailey’s pitch involving Emma Stone, 1970s London and the punk rock movement.: “As every production head came in to join the film, I would immediately stop them and say, ‘We’re not making a Disney movie. Don’t think of this like a Disney film.

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