Cats allegedly headed for big screen- Page 3

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 8:18pm

Yeah!  What was it?

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 8:28pm

The only way I'll see a film of CATS is if it is live action, using real cats, and composed entirely of YouTube videos cleverly stitched together. How could T.S. Eliot possibly object?

[sabrelady]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 8:34pm

Split the difference and do stop motion. Coraline adapted brilliantly and even had a musicale

number in it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOp1wRImIxY  

[Kad]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 12:58pm

Surprised this hasn't been brought up yet: concept art for an attempt at an animated film adaptation from the early 90s by Amblimation, Spielberg's animation studio that shut down in 1997. 

 

http://io9.gizmodo.com/stunning-concept-art-for-spielbergs-animated-cats-movie-1599739506

[trentsketch]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 1:21pm

I actually think a film version could work very well. The whole show is spectacle. A film can go so much further with special effects and locations and just commit to presenting these songs as wild as the original production. It could even have an anthology feel to it, presenting the different songs as self contained short films about the cats singing them, tying them to the junkyard as a framing device. 

Now, I don't think Tom Hooper is the director to go with, but I don't particularly care for any of his work that I've seen (The King's Speech, Les Miserables, The Danish Girl). Who knows? Directors surprise you sometimes. 

[Theater_Nerd]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 2:19pm

What is it about this particular musical that brings out the most melodramatically over the top hostile reactions in some of you on this board?

 

 

[Dave19]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 2:25pm

trentsketch said: "A film can go so much further with special effects and locations and just commit to presenting these songs as wild as the original production."

 

I agree, but as long as directors don't understand the non-literal purpose of the material, it is not going to work.

 

 

 

[hork]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 5:44pm

We should ask Sidney Poitier how to make a movie of Cats.

 

EDIT: Aw, someone beat me to the joke.

Updated On: 2/9/16 at 05:44 PM

[BobbyBubbi]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 6:42pm

Kad, thanks for posting. I remember when that was brought up in the 'off topic section.' Some stunning renderings. 

Am I crazy in thinking Guillermo del Toro could direct this? 

Can Cate Blanchett sing? 

[Kad]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 7:55pm

You'd certainly need someone visionary like Del Toro. 

Certainly not Tom Hooper, who sorely lacks imagination and real vision as a director.

[hork]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 8:16pm

David Lynch's Cats. I'd be all over that.

[Dave19]

Posted: 2/10/16 at 1:41pm

Kad said: "You'd certainly need someone visionary like Del Toro. 

 

Certainly not Tom Hooper, who sorely lacks imagination and real vision as a director.

 

"

 

Well said Kad.