Cruella Director Designed the Film Around Its Needle Drops

Cruella Director Designed the Film Around Its Needle Drops

Cruella director Craig Gillespie says he crafted the Disney film with its needle drops in mind, designing shots that would leave space for music.

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WARNING: The following contains minor spoilers for Cruella, now playing in theaters and streaming on Disney+ with Premier Access.

In addition to its original score by Nicholas Britell, Disney’s new 101 Dalmatians spinoff/prequel Cruella has a fairly stacked soundtrack. As such, the film features a fair number of needle drops throughout its runtime — and director Craig Gillespie says he very much designed the movie with this fact in mind.

“On the soundtrack, I actually designed the movie knowing we’re gonna have music. So, you have to design shots that give space for music,” Gillespie explained during a Disney press conference attended by CBR. “Then, very often on the set, I’ll be putting music — I cut on the set as I go, so I’ll be putting music on the scenes as we’re shooting them. So that Doors track, when we first meet the Baroness, I threw on the day that we were shooting it and it never changed.”

The director continued, “There’s a great Nancy Sinatra song, which was kinda spontaneous when we were shooting. [Cruella] is in Liberty’s, and she’s in the elevator. We did four takes, then I thought, ‘[I] feel like you’d be singing here, maybe. A song.’ And I just went to my phone. I’m like, ‘How about Nancy Sinatra’s ‘Boots Made for Walking?” And [she] was like, ‘Okay.’ [Laughs] And she came out dancing to that. So there’s always music in my mind as we’re going through it and looking for opportunities throughout.”

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The official Cruella soundtrack features quite a few songs, including “Stone Cold Crazy” by Queen, “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by the Clash, Ike and Tina Turner’s cover of “Come Together” by the Beatles and, as Gillespie alluded to, “Five to One” by the Doors. The album also features a few original recordings, including “Call Me Cruella” by Florence and the Machine, as well as a cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” by The Stooges. The cover comes from actor/singer John McCrea, who plays the character Artie in the film (and is not to be confused with comic book artist John McCrea, co-creator DC’s Dogwelder — though that would certainly be an interesting connection.)

Starring Emma Stone in the title role, Cruella gives an origin story to Cruella de Vil, the main villain of Disney’s 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. In addition to starring in Cruella, Stone serves as an executive producer on the film alongside Glenn Close, who herself played the character of Cruella de Vil in the 1996 live-action film 101 Dalmatians and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians.

Directed by Craig Gillespie, Cruella stars Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Paul Walter Hauser, Joel Fry, Emily Beecham, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Mark Strong. The film is currently available in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access.

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