Cats (Reboot)

Cats is a musical fantasy film based on the stage musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn was based on the poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T. S. Eliot. The film is a reboot of the 2019 film adaption which failed to appeal to audiences.

Plot summary
A young man was unfortunate to have to spend the night guard the local dump. But during his round, he stumbles upon a tribe of magical, singing cats calling themselves "Jellicles". They openly welcome him to take part in a celebration they call "The Jellicle Ball".

Plot
Elliot Possum is a security guard who agreed to take his friend Hank's graveyard shift in the dump outside of London. He started to get bored that night, until he found that the dump was being overrun with cats. He tried insulting the cats to make them go away, until he heard a voice come from somewhere. He was complete to watch the cats stand on their hind legs, talk, sing, and dance. They introduce themselves as the "Jellicle tribe" ("Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats").

Cast

 * Tom Felton as Elliot Possum
 * Adam Driver as Hank
 * Lee Arenberg as the wino who threw his shoe during "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats"

Cats

 * Patrick Wilson as as Munkustrap
 * Corbin Bleu as Rum Tum Tugger
 * Chi McBride as Old Deuteronomy
 * Zoe Saldana as Grizabella
 * Rebecca Ferguson as Cassandra
 * John De Lancie as Asparagus "Gus"

Production
In the 2019 film, the cast simply wear CGI suits while filming so that they can appear to possess catlike bodies. But in the reboot, the design of the cats are done very differently, inspired by the animation that created the animals from live-action Disney films, the Na'vi of Avatar, the chipmunks from Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Rocket Raccoon from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The characters are modeled after real-life cats, based on their fur texture and motions. The performers would dance and act in a green screen, wearing CGI suits and facial markers to capture their expression and movements for their animated counterparts. While filming, Tom Felton would be on the dump set alone with animation marker all around him and interact with the digital models on cue.

The idea of having a human in the film came from lyrics in the "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats":


 * There's a man over there with a look of surprise,
 * As much as to say, "Well now how about that!"
 * Do I actually see with my own very eyes
 * A man who's not heard of a Jellicle cat?
 * What's a Jellicle cat? What's a Jellicle cat?