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Bill Hader's Cat in the Hat Gets Pepper-Sprayed and Uses a Flip Phone in First Trailer for the Dr. Seuss Movie
Bill Hader stars in The Cat in the Hat, a new animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book, out in 2026
The first teaser trailer for the film was released on Tuesday, July 1
The Cat in the Hat voice cast also includes Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang and America FerreraThe Cat in the Hat is back!
Bill Hader stars as the trouble-making feline in the latest animated iteration, The Cat in the Hat. On Tuesday, July 1, Warner Bros. gave the first glimpse at the latest take on the character — originated in Dr. Seuss' iconic 1957 children's book of the same name — in the first teaser trailer.
'There's a movie I've been working on for a long time. Like, really long,' Hader, 47, teased in a video shared ahead of the trailer. (The film was first announced back in 2018, according to Variety.)
In the film, the titular cat 'has been reimagined in a way that's hilarious and unlike anything you've seen before,' Hader said in the video.
The comedian also teased that the location of the new movie will be an 'expansive new universe,' which separates it from the 2003 Mike Myers live-action adaptation set in the fictional town of Anville.
In the same video, Hader also announced the star-studded voice cast, which includes Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, America Ferrera, Xochitl Gomez, Tituss Burgess, Matt Berry, Tiago Martinez, Paula Pell and Giancarlo Esposito.
'I can't wait for you to see these unique worlds with different styles of animation, which are so beautiful,' Hader said. 'I love how they frame and shape each world you travel through.'
Further teasing The Cat in the Hat first look, the Saturday Night Live alum joked, 'I had to bribe some officially-looking officials to get this out, and now I'm broke — but it's worth it. You're gonna love it.'
A synopsis teases, "Doing what he does best, the Cat spreads joy to kids in his hilarious, signature and singularly irreverent way, transporting them and audiences on a fantastical journey through a world they've never seen before."
"Our hero takes on his toughest assignment yet for the I.I.I.I. (Institute for the Institution of Imagination and Inspiration, LLC): to cheer Gabby and Sebastian, a pair of siblings struggling with their move to a new town. Known for taking things too far, this could be this agent of chaos's last chance to prove himself ... or lose his magical hat!"
An in-progress version of a trailer for the adaptation debuted at CinemaCon 2025 earlier this year, with the head of Warner Bros. Animation Bill Damaschke describing it as the "doorway into our own Seussiverse,' according to Entertainment Weekly.
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'We all know the cat cheers up and brings joy to kids on rainy days. In our film, he will get his toughest assignment yet and have to up his game to keep that hat,' Damaschke teased at the convention, per EW. 'It expands the story way beyond the book."
Before Hader — who also memorably played a live-action version of the Cat in a 2014 SNL sketch — it was Myers who brought the Dr. Seuss character to life on the big screen. The Canadian actor and SNL alum played the cat in the 2003 film, which starred Spencer Breslin and Dakota Fanning as a sibling duo who — along with Myers' character — butt heads with a villainous Alec Baldwin.
More recently, PBS Kids seriesThe Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! starred yet another SNL alum, Martin Short, as the titular feline. The educational children's show ran from 2010 to 2018, per IMDb.
The Cat in the Hat is in theaters Feb. 27, 2026.
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