One story’s teetered the insane, in a week filled with coronavirus shutdowns and self quarantines, and that’s the Cats butthole situation.
It’s no big secret that the film bombed in a major way at the box office. Most audiences found the realistic approach to the famous Broadway musical to be horrifying.
Tuesday night, the hashtag #ReleaseTheButtholeCut began trending after the film dropped on Digital HD and a close ‘friend’ of a producer on the film revealed a secret from the production.
The VFX artists had to remove 400 shots of computer-generated buttholes from the film before it hit theaters. As funny as this sounds, the story could’ve stopped there.
The story took another big turn when an anonymous VFX crew member spoke with Ben Mekler, saying:
“There were never shots of cats with butt holes, or at least by design, none that I saw anyway. However, there were a dozen or so shots where the skin and fur simulation was groomed or just folded in a way that really REALLY looked like very furry lady genitals and buttholes by accident.”
The Cats VFX team had to fix the strange grooming areas, citing:
“daily reviews were constant awkward discussions of people plucking up the courage to point things like this out; ‘does that look like a fanny to you?’.”
Vanity Fair reached out to Universal Pictures for a response about the Cats rumors and the studio didn’t hesitate to answer. They called it their “favorite email of ALL-TIME.” The studio cannot comment on the rumor but:
“Hopefully that will add to the magic and mythical nature of the cinematic treasure.”
A spokesperson for VFX company Mill Farm says that due to NDAs they have no comment, but also said that the Vanity Fair email is their “favorite email of 2020.”
