Invoice Hader's youngsters maintain him humble.

Throughout Tuesday's Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon 2025, the Saturday Night time Stay star appeared to uproarious applause when it was time to tease the studio's new Cat within the Hat movie. After displaying a work-in-progress trailer, Hader joked that the announcement he'll star as Dr. Seuss's favourite fancy feline went over nicely with… most of his youngsters.

Whereas his two eldest daughters with ex-wife Maggie Carey — Hannah Kathryn and Harper — had been thrilled, his youngest, Hayley Clementine, wasn't too impressed. "Properly, I’ll say, I’ve three daughters, and I've been studying it to them, after which my dad and mom learn it to me," Hader advised the group. "And so I bear in mind once I, you realize, obtained the decision about this, and I went into my youngsters, and I used to be like, 'Hey, what do you guys take into consideration the Cat within the Hat?' And two of them had been stoked. And the youngest one was like, 'Boo!… Ryan Gosling! Boo! Boo!'" (Apparently, she hoped to infuse the solid with some Kenergy slightly than Hader's distinctive model of humor.)

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Described because the "doorway into our personal Seussiverse" by Warner Bros. Animation head Invoice Damaschke, the work-in-progress trailer depicted Hader's titular Cat as wished for a criminal offense he didn't commit. The true wrongdoer, a rambunctious zebra, tears via the display and plunges a traditional suburban residence into tumult with the assistance of another animals and a stash of fireworks.

Alongside the street, Hader's Cat meets a Giraffe with a Carafe and a Pig in a Wig and fights to hold on to his hat in opposition to the problem of a tricky new job.

On stage, Damaschke mentioned of the film, "Everyone knows the cat cheers up and brings pleasure to youngsters on wet days. In our movie, he’ll get his hardest project but and need to up his recreation to maintain that hat. It expands the story manner past the e book."

Hader mentioned that he'd been chasing the movie for years and even put himself on tape for consideration. A little bit of a 2014 SNL sketch wherein Hader portrayed the Dr. Seuss character who first appeared in 1957. Within the sketch, Hader bursts right into a front room to thrill some youngsters performed by Aidy Bryant and Cecily Robust, the latter of whom it's revealed was as soon as romantically concerned with him.

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A brand new Cat within the Hat film from Warner Bros. and Dr. Seuss Enterprises was first introduced in 2018. The final characteristic adaptation of this explicit Seuss character got here in 2003, with Mike Myers because the be-hatted beast and co-starring Alec Baldwin, Dakota Fanning, Sean Hayes, and extra.

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Hader will seem within the movie alongside America Ferrera, Bowen Yang, and Matt Berry. Cat within the Hat will premiere in February 2026.

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