(AllHipHop News) Rapper and actor Ice Cube is fronting a new Disney adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved Oliver Twist.
The “Ride Along” star has teamed up with Tommy Kail, the Tony Award-winning director of Broadway smash “Hamilton,” for a modern, musical take on the literary classic.
Veteran movie producers Marc Platt and Jeff Kwatinetz will produce alongside Ice Cube, who is attached to play thief mentor Fagin – the role portrayed by Ron Moody in the 1968 Carol Reed movie musical Oliver!
Ice Cube and Kwatinetz are also developing the script for the new film, which will feature a Hip-Hop soundtrack.
Director Kail collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the rapper-composer’s musicals In the Heights and Hamilton.
He also directed TV special Grease Live!, which aired in America earlier this year.