CATS Movie Musical to be Directed by Tom Hooper!

Perfect director for this shitfest.

[quote] According to their sources, the director is in the midst of deciding how to approach the adaptation — be it with actors, CG-characters or a combination of the two, a la Jon Favreau‘s “The Jungle Book.”

This should be an animated movie, preferably an old-fashioned, 2D one - anything else will be a monstrosity.

Oh, darn. I was hoping for Sidney Poitier.

Ugh.

The musical (a revue, really) is just a string of unrelated songs about specific cats, with no libretto. It has no plot. How are they going to adapt that into a coherent movie?

I hope it stars real cats. My cats would love it. We'd be there first matinay.

I think that's the way it should be marketed R6. The theaters showing it would install little kitty booster seats in every other seat.

I can't wait not to see this one.

You know they just gotta cast Stockard Channing as Grizabella.

Ahem.

Is Joe Maginello too busy?

Cats in “Cats” will be cat sized

Oh holy crap, why? He can't direct for shit.

I was kind of looking forward to this movie and now I'm not going to see it because of this tool.

I'm only going if it ends up being "Cat!", the musical version of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". There will be a big production number with Maggie throwing ice cream all over the "Little No Neck Monsters". Jennifer Hudson can play "Sister Woman" and get her own theme song.

An acid trip committed to film?

Apparently it wrapped? So now they will animate? Or something?

It should be animated. No one wants to see that makeup up close.

He's got quite a good track record for getting his actors awards and nominations

Prime Suspect 6: Emmy and BAFTA nominations for Helen Mirren

Elizabeth I: Emmys, Golden Globes & SAG awards for Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons

Longford: Golden Globe and Emmy for Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton, BAFTA win for Jim Broadbent, nominations for Samantha Morton & Andy Serkis

John Adams: Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy wins for Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, Golden Globe and Emmy wins for Tom Wilkinson and a SAG nomination

The King's Speech: Oscar, Bafta, Golden Globe for Firth, Bafta and every nomination going for Bonham Carter & Rush

Les Miserables, Everything for Hathaway, nominations for Jackman etc

The Danish Girl: Redmayne and Vikander (bored now)

Cats: Nominations expected for Rebel Wilson, Jason Derulo and Taylor Swift

This is the only musical Streisand should do. One song and they could use her original recording and add dialogue around it. She could re-record it but there is not much power in her voice anymore and all the high notes and belting is almost gone.

Not to be confused with DL fave Tom Hopper.

Are Flan and Ouisa going to be in it?

Filming has ended and no production photos have surfaced.

In keeping with the current SJW mania, he must have a black cat, a trans cat, a powerful female cat, a cowardly white male cat, a disabled cat, and Jussie Smollett.

I’ll see it as long as they include “Growltiger’s Last Stand” with T. S. Elliott’s original words without redactions and the Italian Aria. Otherwise, it will be crap.

Can't believe how you can turn "Les Mis" - one of the greatest musicals (and my personal favorite) into a pile of unwatchable shit. But he have managed ... and will do again with "Cats".

They bumped Wicked for this.

Hopefully they are working on their age removing CGI for Cheno and Menzel and figured waiting is as good as rushing to put someone who is young but not really young enough into Wicked. I would rather see Taylor Swift in her pussy-cat lycra than Ariana Grande doing green against green screen. If you look at the decision to let Cats take Wicked's spot - it really doesn't seem as dumb.

Admittedly I liked Cats. It was nuts. This needs to be nuts.

I don’t like it

R31 agreed. Cats is bonkers.

Why oh why oh why did this get a green light? Who is going to pay to see this shit?

A lost opportunity--should have been Tobe Hooper.

HIS [italic]Cats,[/italic] I would have paid to see.

Cats is going to be a huge success, because of its cast.

Is that Kang from TMNT?

R32 Why exactly did Hudson get this part, she is way to young for Grizabella? And what is she doing to the song here, is she Hathawaying it in hopes of another Oscar? There are so many other older actresses that would have been more fitting to play an aged out diva, hell have Cher do it.

Dench would have made a much better Grizabella

I'm ready for my close up, Mister Looper!

Is Rebel Wilson going to be a fat cat?

^^^ Yes, Jennyanydots! I’m all for it!

The two fuckables: Robbie Fairchild and Laurie Davidson (below).

He already looks like a cat.

^^^ Typecasting!

Based on my experience going to see the short lived Broadway revival, the audience for the movie will be filled with Asians.

R46 must be Asian.

R39 she was also the original but had to withdraw due accident

If only Lauren Bacall were still alive to do her "Fancy Feast" voice.

This may have been posted, but they've already made one movie of it, a filming of the stage production. Walt Disney bugged the hell out of Eliot for "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," so much so that Eliot put it in his will that Disney would never get it.

[quote]Why exactly did Hudson get this part, she is way to young for Grizabella?

They will look like real cats like "The Lion King 2019, not people in costume like the show.

Lion King trailer looks great. Not. Big live actrion fan but this one was my favorite as a child.

R38 at 37 Hudson is older than both Buckley and Paige when they originally sang the song onstage.

They will not look like real cats. They will only be the size of real cats. These actors are acting in the movie, not just lending their voices.

^^^ I’m all confused, they are miniaturizing them to cat size, but not animating them?

[quote]They will not look like real cats. They will only be the size of real cats. These actors are acting in the movie, not just lending their voices.

They were motioned captured. They will look like real cats.

I bet it'll look like Avatar.

^^^ So it’s going to be like that creepy Polar Express movie?

It’s like a bunch of Andy Serkises running around

I’m sorry, but I can not see Dame Judy Dench or Sir Ian McKellan done up in spandex head to toe with electronic dots on their face with motion sensing detectors cavorting around a stage like a cat belting out show tunes. Are we really sure this is how it’s being made?

Yes, that's why there are no photos.

Serkis in Apes is probably the best approximation we have, though I think they'll got for less realism. So they'll look cat-like, but the facial features of the actors will be preserved. The surroundings will probably be completely CG, like Alice in Wonderland. Only thing I'm having a hard time envisioning is the color palette as Hooper's films are rather muted.

I have a feeling the release date of this one is going to be postponed.

I think we'll get it in time. We'll probably get a trailer this summer.

Leaked images!

I was the one incredulous that they wore those tight fitting suits and had dots all over them, but this says it’s so. I hope those ridiculous images of them leak soon. They should have gotten Julie Taymor to do this, she would have come up with some brilliant way to make them cats.

Official trailer.

I found a longer thread, sorry!