#51
Posted: 2/8/16 at 8:18pm
Yeah! What was it?
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#52
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?
#53
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.
#54
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
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#55
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.
#56
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?
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#57
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.
#58
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
#59
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?
#60
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.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#61
Posted: 2/9/16 at 8:16pm
David Lynch's Cats. I'd be all over that.
#62
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.
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