The new trailer for The Cat in the Hat confirms an animated adventure opening in North American theaters and IMAX Friday, November 6. Bill Hader voices the Cat, now tasked with cheering up siblings Gabby and Sebastian as they struggle with a move to a new town.
The footage expands the familiar home invasion into a larger fantasy world. This Cat works for the Institute for the Institution of Imagination and Inspiration, and the assignment may be his last chance to keep his magical hat.
Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja write and direct Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's first full-length feature. It is also the first animated theatrical feature built around the Cat, a useful reset after the character's earlier live-action outing.
The trailer suggests a film interested in disciplined chaos: Hader's Cat is still a disruptive force, but the story gives his improvisation an emotional target. Whether that structure can preserve the book's unruly spirit is the question the finished film will answer.
