The upcoming ‘The Cat within the Hat’ is a brand new introduction to a beloved character that expands on the issues we already learn about him. Voiced by the proficient Invoice Hader, this animated theatrical function movie is an all-new, epic journey the place mischief, magic, and mayhem reign supreme.
The movie additionally contains the voices of Quinta Brunson (‘Abbott Elementary’), Bowen Yang (‘Depraved’), Xochitl Gomez (‘Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity’), Matt Berry (‘What We Do In The Shadows’), and Paula Pell (‘Summer season of 69’).
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat within the Hat’. Photograph: Warner Bros.
Moviefone was in attendance at a digital press convention celebrating the discharge of the primary teaser trailer for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ that includes actor Invoice Hader, Warner Bros. Footage Animation President Invoice Damaschke, and writers/administrators Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja, to study behind-the-scenes particulars of this new animated function.
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1) ‘The Cat within the Hat’ Is A Utterly Authentic Take On The Character
Warner Bros. Footage Animation President Invoice Damaschke. Photograph: Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Footage Animation President Invoice Damaschke explains how ‘The Cat within the Hat’ may function a beloved character, however it’s an authentic tackle him, which is one thing we’ve got not seen earlier than.
Invoice Damaschke: Animation’s at all times been a cornerstone of Warner Bros. however on this this subsequent chapter referred to as Warner Bros. Footage Animation, we’re actually doubling down on that dedication to authentic tales in addition to actually progressive takes on a few of our beloved characters and worlds. And for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ to be our first movie simply looks as if the proper, good challenge as a result of it is truly all of these issues on the identical time. It is a utterly authentic tackle a personality that I believe lots of people have a connection to, however dealt with and delivered to life by our filmmakers and by the very singular actor who performs the cat. It simply comes out in a approach that is larger, higher, extra superb, and extra whimsical than you may ever think about.
2) Invoice Hader Says This Is The First Guide He Remembers Studying
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
Invoice Hader remembers that the primary books he remembers studying by himself are Dr. Suess books, and that he then learn them to his youngsters, so he was thrilled to be part of this story.
Invoice Hader: : Like all people, I bear in mind studying that e-book as a child, after which studying it to my youngsters, after which, I’ve labored with these guys earlier than on totally different tasks, and I’ve identified them ceaselessly, so the mix of those two and the possibility to play such an iconic character? I used to be like, sure. The largest factor was I am an enormous reader and I believe these had been the primary books I bear in mind studying by myself. It is a behavior I had. I get in mattress and browse a e-book, and I began that with these books. I bear in mind accumulating them.
3) Invoice Hader May Be Nice At Improv, However Improvising Did not At all times Work With ‘The Cat within the Hat’
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat within the Hat’. Photograph: Warner Bros.
Invoice Hader is well-known for his impressions and improvising expertise, however when speaking about ‘The Cat within the Hat’ he admits that this was not a film the place improvising labored within the sales space.
Invoice Hader: They wrote this extremely humorous script and so you did not have [to improvise]. Typically you do this stuff and you are like, oh man I gotta actually improvise rather a lot and attempt to make it work one way or the other however this was not like that. The script was lso insanely humorous and then on prime of that, they had been like, yeah, strive stuff. So there was some little improvs right here and there. It was humorous. I might improvise generally, and you may simply see them go, let’s do one other one. Let’s do one as written, as a result of it could go too far off. It is bizarre as a result of they’ve it of their heads and I am simply reacting to the phrases and so that you strive a whole lot of issues and however they’re excellent at speaking what the scene is and this is the emotion of it and this is what we have to attempt to convey.
4) Count on Extra Issues Than Simply Factor 1 and Factor 2
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
Factor 1 and Factor 2 are such an integrel a part of the story of ‘The Cat within the Hat’. The fillmmakers didn’t wish to say an excessive amount of about them, however did verify they are going to play a job within the film and there will probably be greater than you may anticipate.
Erica Rivinoja: Effectively, they don’t seem to be well-behaved, I’ll say. They’re in step with the Issues that you simply meet within the e-book. And as you noticed within the trailer, we’ve got Factor 1, however we even have Factor 3, and plenty of, many extra. There’s many, many who come up. The Cat within the Hat is chaos, and the Issues are further chaos on prime of that. And so they’re so cute, too. So that you get all that chaos from them, however you are still like, oh, you are cute.
5) The New Characters All Have A Dr. Suess Asthetic
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
‘The Cat within the Hat’ expands on the world that everyone knows and love, however these new characters will really feel as in the event that they completely match into that world, full with a Dr. Suess asthetic.
Erica Rivinoja: Our artwork staff was actually superb about utilizing Seuss’s aesthetic and his iconic form language and character language to essentially assist design these. So that they really feel, there’s so many new characters on this film, however all of them really feel like Seuss.
Alessandro Carloni: Effectively, that is the factor is that as we observe Cat on the finish of the e-book and we uncover that entertaining kids and unhappy youngsters on a wet day is his job, there’s an entire company. It was mainly an establishment to create this. And as we all know, there’s Cat in a Hat, and we meet pig in a wig, yak with a pack, ox in a field, owl in a towel, goat in a coat. While you complain about the truth that, oh my god, Cat in a Hat makes such a large number, however you do not wish to get rat with a bat.
6) Even Although It Is Uncommon, The Voice Solid Recorded In The Studio Collectively A Few Instances
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
In animation, it isn’t quite common for the voice actors to file within the sales space collectively. For ‘The Cat within the Hat’ there have been occasions that they had been ready to do that, which the filmmakers consider improved perfmances.
Alessandro Carloni: It is a uncommon factor, as a result of the factor about animation is that you aren’t getting to e-book your actors all on the identical time. However we nonetheless insisted in eager to be sure that this Invoice and his character had one thing to play towards. So Xochitl Gomez, which performs our Gabby, considered one of our stars, that she’s such a breath of ffresh air when she comes within the room. However when Xochitl got here in, when Quinta Bronson got here in, watching these masters carry the scene to life is so thrilling.
7) Voicing A Character Is Extra Exhausting Than You May Suppose, Says Invoice Hader
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
When speaking about his exprience within the sales space, Invoice Hader says that he felt like he was in good palms with the administrators, however there are nonetheless challenges relating to voicing animation.
Invoice Hader: Individuals suppose you roll away from bed and also you get to go and voice a cartoon and animate a film, and it is very easy. It is truly so exhausting afterwards, since you’re primarily simply screaming for 4 hours. And then you definitely’re saying the identical traces again and again, and so they simply begin to lose that means. They’ve watched me have a full-on existential disaster within the sales space. And so they’re like, all proper, we’re all simply going to go away. Simply depart me within the sales space. They flip the lights off, and I simply sit there. No. However that is the one factor is I simply I’ve to very consciously tempo myself since you just do get so drained simply screaming.
8) Invoice Hader Has Performed The Cat within the Hat Earlier than… On SNL
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
‘The Cat within the Hat’ won’t be the primary time that Invoice Hader has performed this character. He truly portrayed him on ‘Saturday Night time Dwell’. Whereas he does love the e-book, and wished to play him, that was not the explanation behind the sketch.
Invoice Hader: The ‘SNL’ factor was, they did not write that as a result of I like ‘Cat within the Hat’. It was extra, I believe, the writers had been going by way of a problem of their marriage and determined to make use of the Cat within the Hat as a approach of not directly commenting to their partner at residence, I believe is what was occurring.
9) ‘The Cat within the Hat’ Guide Is Used As A Leaping Level
A scene from 2026’s ‘The Cat within the Hat’. Photograph: Warner Bros.
The story advised in ‘The Cat within the Hat’ remains to be tied to the e-book, nonetheless it’s used as extra of a place to begin, explains Alessandro Carloni.
Alessandro Carloni: We used the e-book extra of a leaping level for us within the sense that the e-book turned a query for us, which is, is that this cat actually simply on the market to have a superb time for himself and making a large number, or is there extra to it? We take a look at the e-book and understand that on the finish of the e-book, the child appears to be just a little extra assured with himself. May it’s that the cat is definitely the best baby psychologist? So we mainly used the e-book as our start line, that is how our film begins, after which our film turns into an growth on that journey. We determined to observe the cat on the finish of the e-book to search out out the place does this man go and uncover, in truth, the reality about him.
10) Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja Embraced The Uniquness Of The Guide To Create A Whimsical World
(L to R) Erica Rivinoja, Alessandro Carloni, and Invoice Hader attend a press convention occasion for ‘The Cat within the Hat’ trailer launch. Photograph: Warner Bros.
Alessandro Carloni explains that in ‘The Cat within the Hat’ considered one of Dr. Suess’ characters enters the actual world and interacts with kids, one thing that’s distinctive to this story. They used that to their benefit whereas creating this animated movie.
Alessandro Carloni: The distinctiveness about animation is that very similar to in dwell motion, we’ve got superb performers creating the characters with us. However then it turns into about really something needs to be created from scratch, which signifies that every thing is open for us to think about what might it seem like, what might it think about. In dwell motion, you get a whole lot of stuff without spending a dime in a approach. Such as you shoot one thing, there is a tree within the background, you get that tree without spending a dime as a result of it is there. You need to construct a tree and form every leaf and construct every thing on this planet, which signifies that you are able to do something you need, which is also daunting about what are you able to create. After which that is why we find yourself creating motion pictures just like the one we’ve got simply created, which we’re so enthusiastic about, the place we are able to truly get to discover fantastical, unimaginable worlds that we have by no means seen earlier than. The distinctiveness factor about this e-book, that Erica and I took benefit of is that it is the solely Seuss e-book the place a Seussian, magical, whimsical character enters the actual world to satisfy the kids. And so we determined to attempt to embrace that and improve that so that each time the cat enters from his world into the actual world, after which we navigate into fantastical world, we created fully totally different appears of image, fully totally different aesthetics, and fully totally different animation kinds. So our world in our film relies on many, many alternative worlds and totally different aesthetics the place we traverse by way of in our journey.
The Cat takes on his hardest project but… to cheer a pair of siblings battling their transfer to a brand new city. Learn the Plot
What’s the plot of ‘Cat within the Hat’?
The Cat within the Hat (Invoice Hader) makes an attempt to cheer up a pair of siblings once they transfer into a brand new city.
Who’s within the forged of ‘Cat within the Hat’?
- Invoice Hader because the Cat within the Hat
- Xochitl Gomez as Gabby
- Tiago Martinez as Sebastian
- Matt Berry because the Fish
- America Ferrera as Gabby and Sebastian’s mom
‘The Cat within the Hat’ opens in theaters on February twenty seventh 2026. Photograph: Warner Bros.