Cats Director Admits Some Character Designs Were Revised After Trailer Backlash - IGN - IGN

Cats director Tom Hooper has revealed that the production team behind the upcoming movie musical reevaluated some of the character designs in the aftermath of the trailer arriving online.In an interview with Empire, Hooper opened up about the explosive response to the first trailer, admitting that the team were receptive to the feedback, as it ultimately prompted them to make some tweaks to the visuals, though they never expected the footage to spark such controversy."I was just so fascinated because I didn't think it was controversial at all," he explained to the publication. "So it was quite entertaining. Cats was apparently the number-one trending topic in the world, for a good few hours at least.

"We'd only finished shooting in March, so all the visual effects [in the trailer] were at quite an early stage. Possibly there were, in the extremity in some of the responses, some clues in how to keep evolving [the production]. When you watch the finished film, you'll see that some of the designs of the cats have moved on since then, and certainly our understanding of how to use the technology to make them work has gone up, too."

This comes shortly after Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gus the Theatre Cat in the live-action(ish) movie adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical, shared his own response to the backlash by reminding critics that they're not actually meant to be "real cats."

"The stage show, Cats, was not about a lot of people being convincing as cats, but it was about human beings discovering their cat-like nature," the actor clarified. "The temptation I think must have been to turn those actors into cats, like Lion King, and make them look like real cats, but they're not real cats. They're people playing cats, and that is the notion of the film, and it's been done very wittingly, I think, and particularly the dancers."

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For more on the polarizing opinions of Cats, take a look at our roundup of the funniest reactions from social media or have a listen to our podcast episode addressing the controversy. Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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