Actress Angelina Jolie is on board for a new Disney movie titled ‘The One and Only Ivan’.

Jolie, 42, has lent her voice to a key character named Stella in the upcoming adaptation of Katherine Applegate’s eponymous children’s book. The actress is also co-producing theproject, which will be directed by Thea Sharrock and has Mike White as its script writer. The book is going to be adapted into a live-action hybrid movie.

The plot follows a silver back gorilla named Ivan who lives in a cage in a shopping mall along with an elephant named Stella and a stray dog called Bob. Ivan does not remember life before the mall, but when a baby elephant named Stella enters and Ivan finds himself taking care of her, he begins to rediscover his previous life and makes a plan to take the baby elephant away from their abusive owner.

Source: IANS