Movies | Entertainment | Netflix on Instagram: "🎬 Cruella (2021) Cruella is a 2021 American crime comedy film directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, and a story by Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis.[11] Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, and Gunn Films, it is based on Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians,[12] serving as a backstory and an alternative origin story for its antagonist, Cruella de Vil.