Here’s a question I’ve been asking on this site for months now: what the f-ck is thisCatsmovie? TheCatsmovie comes out just before Christmas. Like, pretty much at the same time asStar Wars: Episode IX.他们counterprogrammingStar WarswithCats. OK.
Tom Hooper is directing. Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, James Corden, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, and Taylor Swift are starring. Or… prowling. SORRY. I couldn’t help myself.
Filming wrapped last month and there was aCatspresentation at CinemaCon in Vegas a couple of days ago. They weren’t ready to show any footage so they screened some behind-the-scenes action with the actors dancing and running around the set with motion-caption suits on instead. Tom Hooper said they were using “digital fur technology” to turn them fully into their characters. Again. WHAT THE F-CK IS THIS MOVIE?! Is DAME JUDI DENCH going to be clawing at the camera with her cat paws?
And that’s not all!
The actual sets are super-sized so that a chair, for example, isn’t a regular chair but a giant chair, so that everything feels “cat-sized”. As Idris Elba saidduring the presentation video,"Everything is three or four times bigger than it would usually be, from a cat perspective".
Andy Blankenbuehler, who worked onHamilton, is the choreographer. Apparently the actor-cats were trained in all forms of dance,from ballet to jazz to hip-hop. So Idris Elba is going to be hip-hop feline dancing underneath a layer of digital fur technology? Is your head about to pop off? Because I think mine just exploded trying to wrap itself around this information.
It’s f-cking bonkers. So, yeah, naturally, I’m in. Like I actually can’t wait to see if this will be as crazy as it sounds or if I’ll be eating my own sh-t afterwards all, OMG they pulled it off, that was so good.
这是詹妮弗Hudson at CinemaCon where she sang “Memory”. At least we know the music won’t be an issue.
