Cruella trailer: Emma Stone’s Disney villain goes full Harley Quinn - Polygon

Cruella De Vil, the puppy-killing antagonist of Disney’s 101 Dalmatians, is finally stealing the spotlight. And the first trailer for her standalone movie has extreme Harley Quinn/Birds of Prey vibes.

You might be thinking to yourself: Well gee, how did Cruella De Vil become the fur-loving, dog-murdering fashionista we all know and love to hate? Surely, you don’t just wake up one day and declare, “Yes, I will murder dogs for their delightful spotted fur and also model myself to look like a reanimated corpse with dramatic e-girl black-and-white hair before the invention of the internet!” There must be some escalation to Cruella De Vil’s entire schtick, right?

Well, Cruella — a live-action prequel about the notorious fashionista — dives into Cruella De Vil’s origins. “I wasn’t for everyone,” she says in voiceover in the first trailer. “I guess they were always scared that I’d be a psycho.” Cue maniacal laughter.

Taking place in 1970s London, the movie explores Estella De Vil’s slow descent into dog skin obsession. Frankly it looks and sounds like something out of a psychological thriller instead of a Disney movie. Emma Stone stars as the villainess, with Emma Thompson as the head of a fashion house that hired her. Glenn Close is going to loser her mind.

Cruella is set to release theatrically on May 28.

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