Cats

CastorTroy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

As someone who has never seen the musical this looks very wrong.

Slydice

I usually find musicals difficult to understand. Even films like A Knights Tale threw me a bit by including numbers.

I find this trailer very very difficult to understand.

Effects

It's got that wanker, James Cordon, in it. Tells you everything you need to know.

JP Liz V1

Jennifer Hudson's voice is powerful

jim-jam

CastorTroy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

As someone who has never seen the musical this looks very wrong.

As someone who has seen the musical it looks very wrong.

2smiggy

That will haunt my dreams tonight !!

Arghus

Well, I'm highly disturbed after watching that.

gmisk

Cats....is a bad musical imo...one good song.
This looks like a total disaster to me.

gmisk

Plus James Corden....vomit

el Fenomeno

This is what happens when you don't neuter your pets.

Mr E

Bob Harris

Looks like some weird fetish fantasy.

2smiggy

this lot will love it

woodchuck

I saw the musical a few years ago and came away a bit confused/disappointed. It has one very good song and some other decent songs. There is little/no storyline though. It's literally just... cats! Their personalities and nightly antics. The only vague storyline they had, left me very confused at the end.

pixelburp

Watching that definitely left me with some ... confusing thoughts, I'll be honest. Taylor Swift as a cat you say... uh...

Not sure who this is for, I always got the impression Cats was a Broadway oddity, not quite mainstream enough to be the universal hit ala Phantom or Wicked!.

CastorTroy

I feel I must apologise for exposing you to this trailer.

The Black Oil

Ah, Tom Hooper...should have guessed.

TheIrishGrover

Well..... Good luck sleeping tonight.

conorhal

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Jennifer Hudson's voice is powerful

Yeah, but she's entirely the wrong voice for the song, kind of like casting a Tenor to sing an Alto's part.
I guess this is what happens when you're torn between casting a name with audience recognition vs. casting a voice. It's the same problem the director butted up against when casting Jackman in Les Miserables. He has a good voice, but he's no Colm Wilkinson by a very long shot.


As for the rest, this looks like 'Snapchat Filter: The Movie' 'effin horrifying!


Cats itself is a wierd choice to adapt, it's a series of TS Elliot poems put to music with no real plot to speak of (or speaking parts al all for that matter).
I can see this movie loosing a massive amount of money for the studio.

TheIrishGrover

conorhal wrote: »

As for the rest, this looks like 'Snapchat Filter: The Movie' 'effin horrifying!

Furries: The Musical

pjohnson

If anyone has a fetish for Cats and enjoys Taylor Swift this will suit them.

Effects

I'd rather see the Summer Heights High version.

JustAThought

Ooo - as someone who used get freebies for the West End musicals and has seen Cats at least 3 times and has NO IDEA what the plot was I am not looking forward to thus - might clarify a few mysteries and explain what I missed . Plus it will up the game for this years adults Halloween Costumes and put a few on diets - win win! Kitcat anyone?

gmisk

Effects wrote: »

I'd rather see the Summer Heights High version.

Its no Tsunamarama...the musical about the 2004 asian tsunami set to the songs of bananarama

Wabbit Ears

I'm just gonna admit it, furrie Francesca Hayward & taylor swift in the trailer has made me aware of a fetish I didnt know i had.

That said rebel wilson as a comic relief character and James Cordon plain and simply ruin the rest of it.

super_furry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQA2X4yvK_g

No George Galloway?

gmisk

super_furry wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQA2X4yvK_g

No George Galloway?

Max Clifford......"maybe he just has an obsession with p#ssys"......that hasnt aged well....

Mr Crispy

CastorTroy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

As someone who has never seen the musical this looks very wrong.

It's all a bit Doctor Moreau, really.

p to the e

Why the CGI ears and face? Why not just make up and prosthetics? Maybe we'll get a Sonic the Hedgehog type do over

El Duda

Snapchat Filter: The Movie

johnny_ultimate

p to the e wrote: »

Why not just make up and prosthetics?

The devil works in cruel and mysterious ways, such as unleashing these mutated hell-beings on an unsuspecting public.

p to the e

pixelburp

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

I'm just gonna admit it, furrie Francesca Hayward & taylor swift in the trailer has made me aware of a fetish I didnt know i had.

That said rebel wilson as a comic relief character and James Cordon plain and simply ruin the rest of it.

I suspect the guiding reactions are either screaming revulsion, or the cause of a surge in Google searches for Furry / Anthro related material lol

https://imgur.com/a/EyroSXC

JohnFalstaff

conorhal wrote: »

Cats itself is a wierd choice to adapt, it's a series of TS Elliot poems put to music with no real plot to speak of (or speaking parts al all for that matter).
I can see this movie loosing a massive amount of money for the studio.

I reckon it will make a ton of money. Live action musical is one of the safest box office bets currently and Cats is positioned as this year's big holiday season musical. It's following in the footsteps of The Greatest Showman which many also predicted would flop. Families flocked to it.

It depends on how family friendly Cats is, but I can see a whole young teen demographic coming for Taylor Swift alone. Sticking my neck out I'll go for 4-500m worldwide.

gmisk

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

I reckon it will make a ton of money. Live action musical is one of the safest box office bets currently and Cats is positioned as this year's big holiday season musical. It's following in the footsteps of The Greatest Showman which many also predicted would flop. Families flocked to it.

It depends on how family friendly Cats is, but I can see a whole young teen demographic coming for Taylor Swift alone. Sticking my neck out I'll go for 4-500m worldwide.

I think the musical is pretty crap tbh (and lacks good songs), that trailer looks a disaster but as you say people love an oul musical and its a known musical...Les Mis did 440m in 2012...you could be right!


The greatest showman did well because of word of mouth (and in fairness it has some serious tunes) it did fairly poorly opening week....I cant see this doing the same.

2smiggy

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

It's following in the footsteps of The Greatest Showman which many also predicted would flop. Families flocked to it.

It depends on how family friendly Cats is, but I can see a whole young teen demographic coming for Taylor Swift alone. Sticking my neck out I'll go for 4-500m worldwide.

The Greatest Showman some great songs, likable characters, and a decent story to it.

Having read up on Cats the musical, and the story behind it, I can't really see where they will go with the film. But sur who know's what will happen !!

JohnFalstaff

gmisk wrote: »

The greatest showman did well because of word of mouth (and in fairness it has some serious tunes) it did fairly poorly opening week....I cant see this doing the same.

Greatest Showman was an original property, which makes its box office success even more impressive in the current climate. Cats has four decades worth of audience recognition that will help its opening weekend.

gmisk

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

Greatest Showman was an original property, which makes its box office success even more impressive in the current climate. Cats has four decades worth of audience recognition that will help its opening weekend.

Yep as I said, cats is a known musical.
Id think it will definitely be front loaded (as in a big couple of weeks then a steep decline...unless its good obviously)

gmisk

2smiggy wrote: »

Having read up on Cats the musical, and the story behind it, I can't really see where they will go with the film. But sur who know's what will happen !!

I have seen it on stage.....the story is gubbins....and the songs are pretty poor.
But its a known property (like Les Mis) so will probably do gang busters.

Wicked is the musical adaptation I will be looking forward to!

Royale with Cheese

Got as far as James Corden before having to turn it off. Immediately.

Agent Coulson

Ye I have no words.

Hangdogroad

CastorTroy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

As someone who has never seen the musical this looks very wrong.

Oh , Jaysus not James Corden.

This looks horrific.

Dial Hard

jim-jam wrote:

As someone who has seen the musical it looks very wrong.

That CGI... whyyyyyyyyyy??? Why not just do make-up and costumes like in the show? That's where the stage version works because, let's face it, the plot and music are pretty poor commons, but this??? This is just a fever-dream of wrongness. Whole lot of nope from me, and I say that as an ALW fan.

RickBlaine

It is currently slated to be released on the same weekend as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. That will certainly eat into its its potential grosses so I wouldn't be surprised if it gets pushed up to earlier in December. Delaying it until January is a much less prestigious release date.

Optimalprimerib

Just make the Hamilton movie ffs. Without James Corden. Or rebel Wilson.

Slydice

Slydice wrote: »

I usually find musicals difficult to understand. Even films like A Knights Tale threw me a bit by including numbers.

I find this trailer very very difficult to understand.

I eh.. okay so cats seems to get quite deep then :eek:

https://twitter.com/momo_obrien/status/1152117677571432448

conorhal

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Furries: The Musical

Sad Professor

Actors digitally dressed as cats... Looks demented. Only Tom Hooper hot off of multiple award winning films that have given him an inflated sense of his own talent could be behind this. I think I hate everything about it.

conorhal

Sad Professor wrote: »

Actors digitally dressed as cats... Looks demented. Only Tom Hooper hot off of multiple award winning films that have given him an inflated sense of his own talent could be behind this. I think I hate everything about it.

I see a few bits online from the production art from Spielberg's aborted attempt to make the film version before Dreamworks traditional animation devision got shuttered and it looked great.

There's shades of Don Bluth to the designs, it's a shame that traditional cell animation in cinema is so dead and unapealing to younger generations that it's a dying artform at this stage, or at the very least becoming very niche. It would have added far more then this snapchat horror show ever could.





Concept sketch for McCavity

https://twitter.com/cartoonbrew/status/1152326888540573700

TiGeR KiNgS

Slydice wrote: »

I eh.. okay so cats seems to get quite deep then :eek:

https://twitter.com/momo_obrien/status/1152117677571432448

Can't believe i watched over 2 mins of that clip

Niska

Well, I no longer want a live action Thundercats movie...