'Cats' Director Tom Hooper Responds to Backlash Following Trailer Release

Cats director Tom Hooper is finally responding to criticism of the first trailer of the upcoming movie.

After it was released in July, the movie received much backlash from fans about the appearance of the cats.

Tom says he was surprised about the criticism because he “didn’t think it was controversial at all.”

“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],” Tom told Empire.

He continued, “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.”

Make sure to watch the latest trailer for Cats!

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