Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's first film, 'The Cat in the Hat', opens in theaters
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The Cat in the Hat is the first feature from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and the first film in a three-picture deal with Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Its makers describe a long development that began with a deal signed in November 2017.
The Cat in the Hat, the first film from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, is now in theaters. It is the first of three films under a deal between Warner Bros. and Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which controls the rights to Theodor Geisel's work. Division head Bill Damaschke says that agreement was signed on November 2, 2017, and that the film has been in discussion at the studio for nine years, through several changes in leadership.
In the film, the Cat, voiced by Bill Hader, works for a whimsical corporation and is sent to cheer up two glum children, voiced by Xochitl Gomez and Tiago Martinez. Matt Berry voices Waffles, the children's pet fish. New elements include moving boxes full of memories and fantasies that the characters can enter.
Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni wrote and directed the film. Hader also produced it. He says The Cat in the Hat was the first book he remembers owning, and that he agreed to join without a full pitch. The filmmakers worked with the animation studio DNEG to create the film's worlds. Carloni says it uses three distinct looks: the Seuss world, the real world and the world inside the boxes.
Rivinoja and Carloni say Dr. Seuss Enterprises supported their ideas, though it initially questioned a flat, pancake-like boss character before approving him.
A Looney Tunes short, Daffy Season, plays before the film. The second Seuss film, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, is due in theaters in 2028. The third has not been announced.
