Ice Cube Puts Disney On Ice With 'Gritty' CHROME AND PAINT

In a move that looks set to redefine the word €œincongruity,€ Disney have announced they are set to finance a picture by actor, director, writer and hip-hop legend Ice Cube. Since taking charge of the studio Rich Ross and Sean Bailey have sought to broaden the scope of its output and alter perception of what it means to be known as €œa Disney film,€ and Cube€™s Chrome and Paint about inner-city car culture has been earmarked as an ideal way to do just that. The script is based on a song of the same name from Cube€™s 2006 album Laugh Now, Cry Later, the theme and contents of which are deeply out of synch with Disney€™s traditional image.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DRdBgrqq1U Although the drama- Cube€™s first as a director since the modest domestic success of debut feature The Players Club- is still said to be €œgritty,€ it is thought that the screenplay will be watered down somewhat as the previous intention for an R-Rated movie where 'young people die in drive-bys' clearly wouldn't work here. Cube has been writing the script with Eva Vives, co-writer of the 2002 film, Raising Victor Vargas. There has been no announcement as to whether Rap€™s most successful convert to movie-acting will make an appearance in front of the camera, though given his natural charisma it would be a disappointment to many if he did not.
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