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The Catastrophic Production of the *Cats* Movie Adaptation
Discover the specific, disastrous creative choices and fatal post-production squeezes that turned a beloved Broadway spectacle into one of Hollywood’s most infamous cinematic failures.
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- The decision to use live-action actors with enhancing CGI resulted in universally reviled, nightmarish visuals.
- VFX houses faced impossible deadlines after the director insisted on live on-set recordings and constant micro-management.
- The film’s flop career-ended the director’s momentum and significantly damaged major cast members' trajectories.
This document explains the sequence of events, from initial Spielberg interest to the final, rushed December release, showing how a lack of creative coherence combined with logistical failure created a public relations and artistic catastrophe.
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Top Comments (10)
This video is the closest ive ever gotten to seeing the movie and i STILL want a refund
Ricky Gervais using Cats as an excuse to call James Corden a Fät Půssÿ is Hashbrown Legendary
Drinker, you missed an opportunity to say "Go Away Meow."
"This is the worst thing to happen to Cats since Dogs" - Ricky Gervais
0:52 It killed James Corden’s career? Maybe the film wasn’t so bad after all… Edit: Cheers! 🍻🏴 Go away now.
"We would literally spend hours on end barefoot and crawling on the floor just hissing at each other" - Taylor Swift
A necessary evil to kill off unwanted celebrity careers
It ended Corden's career. For that alone, it will always have a place in my heart.
My animation tutor worked on this film and had told us a few horror stories back in uni. One I distinctly remember is the director didn't like the 'tails raised' look so he gave them a week to re-edit the film to have all the tails swaying down instead, then once he saw it, went back on his decision and only gave the department a few days to undo all that work.
People say the world fell apart in 2020 with COVID. It actually fell apart after 2019 with Cats.
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Top Comments (10)
This video is the closest ive ever gotten to seeing the movie and i STILL want a refund
Ricky Gervais using Cats as an excuse to call James Corden a Fät Půssÿ is Hashbrown Legendary
Drinker, you missed an opportunity to say "Go Away Meow."
"This is the worst thing to happen to Cats since Dogs" - Ricky Gervais
0:52 It killed James Corden’s career? Maybe the film wasn’t so bad after all… Edit: Cheers! 🍻🏴 Go away now.
"We would literally spend hours on end barefoot and crawling on the floor just hissing at each other" - Taylor Swift
A necessary evil to kill off unwanted celebrity careers
It ended Corden's career. For that alone, it will always have a place in my heart.
My animation tutor worked on this film and had told us a few horror stories back in uni. One I distinctly remember is the director didn't like the 'tails raised' look so he gave them a week to re-edit the film to have all the tails swaying down instead, then once he saw it, went back on his decision and only gave the department a few days to undo all that work.
People say the world fell apart in 2020 with COVID. It actually fell apart after 2019 with Cats.