Part of the bizarre charm and intrigue of the Broadway musical Cats is the costuming. The impossibly great lengths the original costume and makeup departments went to to make ordinary people look like our feline friends resulted in a Cats image that has been seared permanently into any Broadway fan's head as instantly recognizable and utterly unforgettable. So when the new movie adaptation of Cats was announced back in July 2018, most of us assumed the cats would remain largely the same. Turns out, not so much.
In a complete departure from what anyone thought the felines in the movie version might look like, Universal has revealed that the cats will instead look like cats. Fairly realistic CGI cats, to be specific.
In a presentation at CinemaCon, Universal Studios shared images of the star-studded cast in motion-capture suits on the film's oversize sets. With the help of CGI, the actors will be digitally transformed to look appropriately normal cat-size.
Not that we aren't excited to see behind-the-scenes images of Dame Judi Dench or Idris Elba with motion-capture markings on their faces, but this seems to us an odd choice that only makes this already crazy movie even crazier. And makes us all the more eager for it to finally hit the big screen.
