DISNEY Studios is teaming with Ice Cube and Thomas Kail, the Tony-winning director of “Hamilton,” for a modern and musical take on Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist.”

    Marc Platt, the veteran movie producer who also was behind Broadway’s hit musical “Wicked,” and Jeff Kwatinetz of “The Firm” are producing. Cube also will produce via his Cube Vision banner.

    “Oliver Twist” is one of Dickens’ most famous works and tells of an orphan boy who moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being under the wings of Fagin, a leader of a gang of London pickpockets. Hardship, murders and secrets waiting to be revealed follow the boy.

    The popular story was already adapted by Disney as an animated movie, 1988’s “Oliver and Company.” But perhaps the biggest impact on popular culture has been through the never-ending iterations of the stage musical “Oliver!”

    The new “Oliver Twist” will be a modern musical with sources describing it as crossing many genres, including hip-hop. Cube and Kwatinetz are writing the treatment, with Cube attached to play Fagin.

    The project is in able hands with Cube, the former co-founder of seminal rap group N.W.A turned actor and producer, most recently producing “Straight Outta Compton” and “Ride Along 2.” (SD-Agencies)