There’s an opportunity to reimagine the concept into something a bit more interesting.
We can still have a movie where 99 Dalmatian puppies get kidnapped, but it doesn’t have to be Cruella who does the kidnapping.
A story like that would, at the very least, allow for some creativity to enter into the formula, and that’s what made both Cruella and Maleficent interesting in the first place.
Perhaps she’s framed for the crime and has to discover who really did it herself.