Tom Hooper to direct movie of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats'

[Arachnerd]

That was an amazing song.

Shame that it was featured in this uncanny valley trailer.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That was an amazing song.

Shame that it was featured in this uncanny valley trailer.

There was a song?

 

[sueb1863]

The ears are too small, and the human faces on the cat bodies just look bizarre. They don't look like cats.

I'll stick to the 1998 filmed version of the stage show.

 

[StarLord]

Sorry, IT, this is now the scariest trailer released today

 

[Legendver2]

I'm the odd man out probably, but I'm def watching this for the sheer insanity of it. Don't wanna sound deranged, but furry Tay Tay kinda hot

 

[The Shape]

Some of the reaction on Twitter are hilarious.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

I know nothing about Cats the Musical, except it's a musical presumably about feline creatures. Is it meant to be a horror piece?

 

[Marvolo]

Studios should really stop greenlight Hooper's adaptions of stage plays.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Pink Ranger]

I actually like what I see. Albeit I know the furry community's going to be all over this too. Funny that Victoria is the main character it seems, she's the one character that practically has no lines in the show.

 

[Marvolo]

Nicholas Cat would be a better film than Hooper's horror film.

 

[Zorro]

Whoa! All I can say. Not exactly sure what to think.

Interesting for sure!

 

[StarLord]

 

[sueb1863]

Whoever made the decision to put human faces on the cat bodies, with no alteration to make them look like cats, needs to be fired. They don't look like cats.

For comparison's sake here's the opening from the 1998 filmed version of the show:

 

[terry78]

I was sure they were just gonna go Na'vi with them and have them look like humanoid cats, basically with actual cat faces on human bodies. But I don't even know what....

 

[Legendver2]

I was sure they were just gonna go Na'vi with them and have them look like humanoid cats, basically with actual cat faces on human bodies. But I don't even know what....

Just think of this as Deepfakes: The Movie.

 

[terry78]

lol somebody commented on the youtube trailer that this feels like they're seeing forbidden knowledge, and someone replied, "Lovecraft warned us."

 

[The Guard]

Cue people being surprised that the key visual concept for the characters in CATS is more or less the visual concept for CATS that was so popular onstage for so long. This is what the cats look like in CATS. They're people in humanoid cat costumes.

It looks like CATS with a bigger budget and a few modern jokes tossed in. I don't really see the issue, aside from the "neccessity" of its existence as an adaption.

 

[Legendver2]

Not gonna lie, this got me thinking bout a live-action Thundercats Didn't know I needed this but I want Tay Tay as Cheetara

 

[sueb1863]

Cue people being surprised that the key visual concept for the characters in CATS is more or less the visual concept for CATS that was so popular onstage for so long. This is what the cats look like in CATS. They're people in humanoid cat costumes.

It looks like CATS with a bigger budget and a few modern jokes tossed in. I don't really see the issue, aside from the "neccessity" of its existence as an adaption.

But it's not. Look at the stage costumes in the 1998 clip and the new CGI version. The ears in the new movie are very small, almost nonexistent, and they didn't put any fur on the sides of their heads to balance out the human faces. Also they didn't alter the human faces in any way like the stage show did with makeup. They're just perfectly normal human faces on cat bodies. That is never going to look right.

 

[Marvolo]

Cue people being surprised that the key visual concept for the characters in CATS is more or less the visual concept for CATS that was so popular onstage for so long. This is what the cats look like in CATS. They're people in humanoid cat costumes.

It looks like CATS with a bigger budget and a few modern jokes tossed in. I don't really see the issue, aside from the "neccessity" of its existence as an adaption.

No the cats in Cats are cat faces on human bodies that have cat features. This is just a Deepfaked freakshow. They shouldnt have totally normal human noses, mouths, and eyes. Especially since they are cgi.

 

[Snow Queen]

Man, and IT: Part 2 thought it'd be the scariest trailer of the day.

 

[Ninjablade]

Well, that trailer was something...

 

[Lencho01]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Cue people being surprised that the key visual concept for the characters in CATS is more or less the visual concept for CATS that was so popular onstage for so long. This is what the cats look like in CATS. They're people in humanoid cat costumes.

It looks like CATS with a bigger budget and a few modern jokes tossed in. I don't really see the issue, aside from the "neccessity" of its existence as an adaption.

If this looked like the stage play, it would look like folk in costumes. Like the Cowardly Lion. Not this CGI mishap.