The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat returns for a series reboot with a new animated adventure. Warner Bros. recently delayed the film, but now it’s primed and ready for release. The studio has just posted the newest trailer online. Based on the story by Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat stars Bill Hader in the title role. The rest of the cast includes the voices of Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Paula Pell, Tiago Martinez, Giancarlo Esposito, America Ferrera, Bowen Yang, and Tituss Burgess.
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Hader told the crowd at CinemaCon earlier this year that his youngest daughter didn’t think much of him playing the Cat, preferring that Ryan Gosling should be the one in the role. “Well, I will say, I have three daughters, and I’ve been reading it to them, and then my parents read it to me,” Hader said. “And so I remember when I, you know, got the call about this, and I went into my kids, and I was like, ‘Hey, what do you guys think about the Cat in the Hat?’ And two of them were stoked. And the youngest one was like, ‘Boo!… Ryan Gosling! Boo! Boo!’“
The new film twists the classic story in a new direction. Here’s the official synopsis for The Cat in the Hat, courtesy of Warner Bros. Animation:
“In the wonderfully whimsical tradition of Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat comes to the big screen in his animated theatrical feature film debut, an all-new, epic adventure with an edge, where mischief, magic and mayhem reign supreme. Doing what he does best, the Cat—voiced by Bill Hader—spreads joy to kids in his hilarious, signature and singularly irreverent way, transporting them and audiences on a fantastical journey through a world they’ve never seen before.
In the film, our hero takes on his toughest assignment yet for the I.I.I.I. (Institute for the Institution of Imagination and Inspiration, LLC): to cheer Gabby and Sebastian, a pair of siblings struggling with their move to a new town. Known for taking things too far, this could be this agent of chaos’s last chance to prove himself…or lose his magical hat!”
Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja direct The Cat in the Hat from a screenplay they wrote based on Dr. Seuss’s classic story. In the twisted tale, a clever cat brings chaos and mischief to a pair of siblings struggling with their move to a new town.
The animated film hits theaters on November 4.
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