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There’s a “Butthole Cut” of CATS, and Fans Want It

You’ve seen the movement online to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut of Justice League. And more recently, you’ve seen fans
rally to petition to #ReleaseTheJJCut of The Rise of Skywalker. But are you prepared for the latest fan movement
working toward an alternate version of a recent movie? If you’ve seen #ReleaseTheButtholeCut trending on social
media, then you have. And no, despite what this might sound like, this isn’t for an X-rated movie. It’s for the big
screen adaptation of the musical Cats.

You see, there was an actual version of the film that had the singin’ and dancin’ felines portrayed with realistic cat
anuses. Ok, so it seems there weren’t any actual CGI buttholes on the Jellicle cats of Cats.But we’ll get to that.

Cats was released to critical hatred and audience indifference, and tanked badly at the box office over the Christmas
season. It was said to have lost Universal Studios over $100 million dollars. But it instantly developed a “so bad its
good” reputation among the moviegoers brave enough to have watched it. Not since Showgirls has a bad movie so
instantly risen to cult classic status. So, of course, the new and fervent fanbase wants more Cats. And they want it
now. One such fan is writer/producer Ben Mekler, who used his Twitter account to make his desire for a tell-all book
about the making of Cats a reality.

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

Well, someone responded with a juicy piece of info that would make for a good first chapter in this
proposed Making of Cats book. A Twitter used named Jack Waz dropped this tidbit about the making of the film,
citing a buddy who is a VFX artist. Turns out, his friend spent quite a bit of time removing some 400 shots of feline
buttholes from the film. Someone must have realized that a bunch of cat anuses on human actors would likely send
audiences into therapy, and thus removed them all. But this also means that somewhere, there is indeed a “butthole
cut” of Cats.

Finding this cut is my white whale #ReleaseTheButtholeCut

— Jack Waz (@jackwaz) March 18, 2020

To help further clarify this cat-butt sitch, another anonymous VFX artist who came forward with the facts. The
“buttholes,” it seems, were unintentional. What they were asked to remove were different creases and folds that
merely looked like cat anuses, among other body parts. So they had to remove them all one by one. Which kind of
makes the whole thing funnier if you ask us.

URGENT #ReleaseTheButtholeCut update/clarification, emailed to me by a CATS VFX crewmember who has asked to remain anonymous pic.twitter.com/nmta9CG08E

— ben mekler (@benmekler) March 18, 2020

Regardless, the people have spoken. They demand that Universal #ReleaseTheButtholeCut of Cats. As you can see
down below, even famous names like Rian Johnson and Seth Rogen have chimed in, asking for this to become a
reality. Can this new move take momentum? After all, we need lots of new entertainment now that Coronavirus has
us all stuck at home. What better way than to give fans an even more horrifying version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
epic vision?

Lastly, one fan reminded everyone that Universal once DID have the gumption to put a butthole on a cat…in The
Secret Life of Pets. If they did once, they can do it again. Give the fans what they want I say.
#ReleaseTheButtholeCut.

https://nerdist.com/article/cats-butthole-cut/

 

 

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