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Hello and welcome to episode 109 of the Diz Unplug connecting with Walt Podcast.

I am your host and Diz historian Michael Bowling.

I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Craig Williams.

Craig, how are you today?

I'm doing good, Michael.

How are you?

Oh, I'm doing well. Thank you. You know, you sound very clear coming from the being first in line for that cat's film that's coming out this December.

Yeah, I don't think that was me. And maybe you got your lines crossed on that uh i i can promise you i will probably see it uh just out of like sheer sheer sheer wonderment like it's see it you know it's like

watching a car wreck happen and you just don't want to look, but you have to. That was quite something, wasn't it?

Just really, like, I don't want to take away from the people who have clearly worked very,

very hard on this movie and such, you know, it's, they, they have a task to bring a musical to life and they decided

on the methods that they decided on.

It just looks terrifying as I'll get out, but I don't know if I could do much better, so I'm not going to knock them.

Yeah, it was, it was amazing, yeah. So, yeah, yeah, and what's interesting is, is that, you know,

that film was considered over the years many, many times to be, you know, to be animated.

But T.S. Eliot did not want his little Jellico cats turned into a Disney film. He didn't want them cute and all that.

So, you know, so Disney, you know, made the Euristocats instead.

But the interesting thing is that Stephen Spielberg had a version of it that he was sort of working on,

an animated version of cats, and it was going to be set

during the Blitz in London from 1940 to 41 and there's some beautiful you know um like storyboard art

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