There’s A Version Of ‘Cats’ Out There Where All The Cats Have CGI Buttholes
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This. Folks, this is the content we need right now. Everyone in the world is running around panicking, snatching up toilet paper, and singing from their balconies? But us? Nuh-uh — not us. HERE, at BroBible, we’re spending today writing about… CGI feline buttholes.
Coincidentally enough, this is somehow the second article I’ve written about Cats today, perhaps proving that maybe the world is well and truly coming to an end after all.
This morning’s article was about Seth Rogen using the country’s current situation as an opportunity to get extremely high and sit through Cats. Frankly, considering everything going on these days, it’s a Twitter thread we deserve.
This story, however, is far more fascinating (and frankly, important) as it involves perhaps the funniest term I’ve ever heard while covering the entertainment industry: CGI buttholes.
Earlier this week, writer Ben Mekler tweeted that he wanted a tell-all book about Cats available for everyone to read to help us get through our current pandemic.
One of Mekler’s followers quickly responded that he had a friend who was hired to do VFX on the movie during post-production, and his job was exclusively to remove buttholes that the production staff originally added and then changed their minds about. [via ScreenRant]
A VFX producer friend of a friend was hired in November to finish some of the 400 effects shots in @catsmovie. His entire job was to remove CGI buttholes that had been inserted a few months before. Which means that, somewhere out there, there exists a butthole cut of Cats
— Jack Waz (@jackwaz) March 18, 2020
That’s right, people: at one point in this very uncertain and distorted reality of ours, there was a version of the infamously awful Cats movie that featured a bunch of human-feline hybrids with CGI buttholes. Obviously, the CGI buttholes were eventually removed before the film’s release, but the very notion of their one-time existence again begs the question: how in the almighty hell did this abomination of a movie get made?
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Eric is a New York City-based writer who still isn’t quite sure how he’s allowed to have this much fun for a living and will tell anyone who listens that Gotham City is canonically in New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter @eric_ital for movie and soccer takes or contact him eric@brobible.com
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