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Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" into a candy-colored, in-your-face comedy starring Mike Myers as the mischievous feline in a towering red-and-white cap ") Welch said there are only a few of those kinds of jokes in the movie, and they are expected to fly over the heads of little ones "So the kids are completely bored in this nightmare of suburbia because all people dressed the same and every car is identical â€â€? that allows the Cat to come in and disrupt all that It was made into a television cartoon in 1971, but that was barely a half-hour There's no denying the 1957 tale is one tough tome to turn into a feature film: it's about two bored kids who learn how to have responsible fun on a rainy day, and has various plot holes â€â€? in its 61 pages of rhyme and drawings the girl's name is mentioned (Sally) but not the boy's Some Seuss purists regarded that movie as crass, but it was a hit: earning $260 million domestically and becoming the year's highest-grossing movie It was so hot that the interior had to be lined with tubes that could flow ice water during breaks between shots Producer Brian Grazer wanted something that could last roughly an hour and a half " Does mom (Kelly Preston) really leave the kids all alone for the day? That's what happens in the book "You didn't want people sitting in their seats in a theater watching people sitting bored in the house," Schaffer said And for the sake of plot, why is it so important to keep the house immaculately clean? Enter Mr Seuss, is treasured by millions, and tinkering with its story is akin to challenging the childhood nostalgia of three generations "We agreed it would be a live-action cartoon, and talked about the sound," Welch said Director Bo Welch said Myers designed the character himself, which meant ad-libbing jokes in an "Amazing Discoveries" infomercial parody, writing gags for his own independent-minded tail and contriving a voice (At one point The Cat picks up a particular kind of muddy garden tool and sneers: "Dirty hoe ) Apart from casting the lead, the filmmakers said they needed to craft a broader story The writers, fearing this might worry the audience, created a baby sitter: the deep, deep, deep sleeper Miss Kwan There's a little bit of the fussy comedian Charles Nelson Reilly under that hat, too â€â€? plus some Burt Lahr, who played another famous cat: the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz "He had a very sinuous line and drew very elegant curves that always came to slender points," said Alex McDowell, the production designer who created the film's neighborhood of identical violet houses and gravity-defying trees "Because, if you think about it, this is just a home-invasion story about a giant crazy cat who barges into the house and wrecks the place He is mom's obsessively fastidious boss who is coming over that evening for a dinner party and fires anyone who isn't neat "Kids are pretty much afraid of the Grinch, but you want them to like the Cat," he said The set was built on a hillside in California's Simi Valley and reportedly alarmed residents who feared the garish housing development was for real Other influences on the voice include the late director Bruce Paltrow â€â€? father of Gwyneth '" (Myers, who balks at all print interviews, refused to speak to The Associated Press " "We pitched it almost as a kid's version of `Ferris Bueller's Day Off,'" Mandel said " When it came to building a costume for Myers, however, makeup artist Steve Johnson said there was no way to replicate Seuss' drawing of the spaghetti-limbed feline It's an apparently colorful and attractive world, but it's very repetitive," McDowell said " The Myers performance suggests the Cat hails from New York, with a laid-back version of the urban Jewish accent he used playing Linda Richman in the "Saturday Night Live" sketch "Coffee Talk" (or "Cawwfee Tawwk," as she pronounced it) That was the philosophy the filmmakers followed to transform the simple whimsy of "Dr " "It's that comforting, New York, `don't worry' feeling," Welch said We used it as a skeleton: Mom has to go out, kids are left home, cat comes to visit, house gets messed up, they kick out the cat, they clean it up, and get everything done before mom comes home He did about 30 makeup tests on Myers and built several full-body suits covered with black and white yak hair, human hair and synthetic fibers "There's not much left in that one other than the title now Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas," which added pop-culture jokes, a history about the Grinch's childhood and subplots about the Whoville residents Conrad, played by Spencer Breslin, is a messy troublemaker who needs to learn responsibility, while his sister (Dakota Fanning) is an uptight goody-two-shoes who needs to loosen up "There's always something a little bit odd or twisted about this world Then they had to give the kids distinct personalities "The book is a very perfect beginning, middle and end Then the writers decided to get the cat and kids out of the house and into the neighborhood, where the furry star is mistaken for a pinata at a children's birthday party, and drives around the streets in the part-boat, part-airplane, part-jalopy Super Luxurious Omnidirectional Watchamajigger "He wanted it to be like hearing your New York doctor say, `Oh relax But the book by Theodor Geisel, who won a Pulitzer Prize writing under the moniker Dr Around that, they constructed a giant cat head with remote-control ears and heavy magnets to grip the various off-kilter caps The adjustments worked for most people in 2000, when Ron Howard directed Jim Carrey in "Dr Humberfloob ("Will & Grace" co-star Sean Hayes) Grazer, who also produced "The Grinch," sought to follow that movie's formula Once the script was in place, construction began on replicating Seuss illustrations in the real world Ultimately, the filmmakers decided to take a minimalist approach on the facial makeup, leaving Myers' real eyebrows and mouth exposed, while covering his nose and parts of his cheeks "Everyone thinks they know what the Cat in the Hat should sound like, but no one has ever heard him Filmmakers Unleashed Myers on 'Cat' Nov 19, 11:53 AM EST You don't put a leash on a cat "The sad thing is we took some things from 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back' and now we have to write that," screenwriter Berg said " The first step was giving the boy a name: Conrad you'll be fine Most additions were made out of necessity, they said There is also a smattering of borderline raunchy humor, which is why "The Cat in the Hat" is rated PG instead of G " Since he expects box-office success, and Grazer already has his writers working on a sequel Hayes also voices the story's computer-animated goldfish, who in the Seuss book is the voice of caution and restraint He hired a team of three writers to adapt "Cat": Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg and David Mandel, all former "Seinfeld" scribes who worked together on an uncredited rewrite of "The Grinch Carrey's makeup in "The Grinch" hid his face much more, but Johnson said that wouldn't have worked in this movie Among the efforts Bing made, according to the action, was contracting with Woody Allen to appear in the film and provide script notes for it in exchange for Penn's agreement to drop a demand for script approval before he would commit to the project "However, Penn reneged on his promise to waive script approval without reservation, and then insisted that he and Shangri-La had entered into a 'pay or play' contract which Penn wrongly contends requires Shangri-La to pay Penn $10 million whether or not Penn appears in the motion picture," the lawsuit states According to the lawsuit, Bing and his company, Shangri-La Entertainment, invested millions of dollars to make the film "Penn's representatives menacingly warned Bing that Penn could not be controlled, and that he was crazy and irrational," the lawsuit stated If the money wasn't paid, the lawsuit indicates, Penn would publicly embarrass Bing by saying a political disagreement between the two had kept him from making the movie A message left Tuesday for Penn's publicist wasn't immediately returned Producer Bing Accuses Penn of Extortion Feb 12, 2:21 PM EST Producer Steve Bing is suing Sean Penn for $15 million, accusing the actor of trying to extort $10 million from him in a dispute over whether Penn would star in a proposed movie titled "Why Men Shouldn't Marry Bing seeks $15 million in general and special damages along with unspecified exemplary and compensatory damages, as well as a court ruling that Penn does not have a "pay or play" contract for the film " According to the lawsuit, Penn appeared to have lost interest in the project but still tried through various means to force Bing to pay |
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