The trailer of the live-action adaptation of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s ‘Cats’ musical was released last week, and the clip would probably haunt anyone in his sleep.
Jennifer Hudson sings the refrain of “Memory” in the background, while cats in “digital fur technology” and large human faces dance around giant beds and lights.
The “Cats” musical first opened on Broadway in 1982 to win “Best Musical,” “Best Book” and “Best Original Score” from Tonys. The story follows a tribe of cats who gather at a ball every year to choose one cat who shall die and be reborn into a new life.
Besides Hudson, a star-studded lineup of cast includes Taylor Swift, James Corden, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo and Francesca Hayward of Royal Ballet, in her feature film debut.
Last week, Swift gave a glimpse of the making of the musical, mentioning the absence of any cat costume on set, the digital fur technology and the naturally moving tails. Yet no one was prepared for the actual trailer. Here are details about the trailer that the online crowd can’t get over with.
1. The trailer left singer and filmmaker Seth MacFarlane looking like this:
2. One Twitter user sees the need to call an emergency feline meeting and calls the trailer an “insult” to the cat population. “I’m calling an emergency meeting of cats to agree our response to THAT film trailer,” @Number10cat wrote. “This insult to felines shall not go unpunished!”
3. While the female cats are sporting a sexy chest outline, there is also a strong clamor online of people demanding to know where the cats’ nipples are.
Where are their nipples? Are they wearing cat fur jackets? So many questions. https://t.co/kzCJNeaVcu
— Felicia Day?? (@feliciaday) July 18, 2019
4. Another user calls the female cat’s chests “nippleless hairy mounds.”
5. Some are simply freaked out by the silhouette protruding human butts covered in fur while dancing a ballet routine.
it has been one full hour since I saw the CATS (2019) trailer and this is the image that will haunt me pic.twitter.com/98Ej35v8v5
— Christina Grace (@C_GraceT) July 18, 2019
6. One Twitter user thinks that the divided opinion on the trailer is between the theater people and the non-theater people who are not used to seeing such costumes: “my take: the cats trailer is how musicals look to non-theater people all the time and this is all the theater people realizing that and having an existential crisis.”
7. There are people who have high hopes that the film will be as surprisingly wondrous as the production promises it to be. “The #Cats trailer looks batshit crazy and is probably gonna surprise us all by being amazing,” user @JBilbrey3 said.
8. And what’s more, singer and actress Anna Kendrick chimed in, too.
My favorite thing about the #Cats trailer is that it didn’t awaken anything (new) in me, sexually. So. Phew.
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) July 19, 2019
“At the center of this incredibly entertaining, comedic, fantastical musical is a very timely story about the importance of inclusion and redemption,” said director Tom Hooper in the featurette.
Tom Hooper is now on his second musical film after the musical film adaptation of Les Misérables in 2012. “Cats” is choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler.
The “Cats” musical film is hitting theaters on Dec. 20.
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