JASON DERULO- Joins CATS FILM as Rum Tum Tugger — Page 2

Is there anything you lot do like?

Yes.

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Why are people so up in arms? It's not as if CATS has this legacy of gravitas and decorum to uphold.

In 1957 West Side Story combined classical and popular musical styles, ballet and theatre, presentational and representational styles, and was a masterpiece. In the eighties, Cats did all of that but schitty. And isn't that part of the appeal? The balls-out absurdity of the idea and the piece?

Filling it with idiosyncratic superstars seems to fit the idea, if not the balletic, somewhat anonymous, execution of the piece.

Updated On: 11/21/18 at 11:19 AM

This is going to be so wonderfully awful.

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CarlosAlberto said: "I don't understand why thoseof you on this board who have gone on record to say you don't like CATS are so invested in who gets cast in the film adaptation.”



Because it’s so deliciously bad.

does this mean we will have the tugger rap version, oh please no.

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Tim Barstow said: "This is semi off topic, but Universal does not know how to pick directors for movie musicals. "

Very, very true.

They have no clue. I think Tom Hooper is literally panicking about what to do with the material. He has absolutely no idea about the artform, this way of storytelling, what acting through song is (he thinks acting in spite of song is acting through song), whether to hire singers who can act through song or movie actors, no clue about the pacing of scenes, absolutely no idea about the given of sung thoughts on film and the essence of treating sung thoughts differently from sung dialogue, etc.

The person working at Universal responsible for this choice should be fired. Tom Hooper directing a movie musical is like giving my 2 year old nephew the responsibility of flying a boeing 747 filled with passengers. A situation that has no winners.

Updated On: 11/21/18 at 04:32 PM

With all the “talent” involved, I have a feeling this isn’t going to be the cats I fell in love with. This is going to be a autotuned mess, with feminist ideas being shoved down our throats. They will somehow turn this into Grizebella insisting that she doesnt need a man (or should I say cat) and how she is only selected to go to the heavyside layer cause she is a female.

Theres also no way in hell we see the orignal Rum tum tugger. It’s going to be the dreadful rapping version from london. I mean gotta make this hip!

With almost zero plot, and ZERO real talent, this film will miss the exact thing that made it work.

I will be seeing this after taking the fattest rip from the biggest bong I have, and I will enjoy this mess of a movie.

Tom, if you read this, what are your views on the final scene with Old Deuteronomy? Where he sings his heavenly notes to the other cats?

How is Judi able to not make it the self-pitying, speak-bleating, retiring, subdued moaning, groaning she always does? She is not able to emote through song, but in spite of song. Don't ruin her scene by letting her attempt singing then, that hurts the acting. Use a voice over.

I know you have disdain for, and zero understanding of the material, but please, anything but this overemoting crap please. Acting out each syllable, spoken on the already very dramatic music is unbearable. And not filmic. And not raw or real.

Updated On: 11/21/18 at 04:51 PM

Justin D said: "does this mean we will have the tugger rap version, oh please no."

Jason Derulo doesn’t rap.

adamgreer said: "Justin D said: "does this mean we will have the tugger rap version, oh please no."

Jason Derulo doesn’t rap."

Yes I know and I actually think he has a nice voice, but its ALW and he tends to believe that that rap version was the bees knees and would be more popular than the Elvis inspired original. I hope they keep the original.

as for the addressing of cats, i would not be surprised if this is either sung entirely be someone else or more likely sung by everyone ala the opening number as there is nothing in the song that makes necessitates it being sung by a particular cat.

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