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FANNING LIKES THE RED AND WHITE STRIPES
from unknown, 2002
Posted on Monday, November 04 , 2002
Dakota Fanning-star of the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's book The Cat in the Hat-told SCI FI Wire that production is running smoothly. Eight-year-old Fanning plays Sally and is joined by Mike Myers as The Cat and Spencer Breslin as Conrad. "It's going really great," Fanning said in an interview. "We're actually out in Simi Valley [Calif.] right now, and they've built this set with 24 purple houses with blue roofs, orange chimneys and green and yellow cars. It's just amazing. My costume is a green corduroy jumper with a purple gingham top and a purple eyelet skirt."
Fanning added that the script-by Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer-expands on the Seuss story. "It is so funny," she said. "It's just like the book. Obviously, there's more [in the script], because the book is short. But there is Thing One and Thing Two, and they're dressed just the same. The Cat has his red bow. There's the boy and the girl and all the houses. You know the trees that hang down? They have those in every yard. The story is just like the book, but you really get to know all the characters, get to know their personalities so much. You realize what kind of people these characters are before the [action] actually starts. Conrad is somebody who doesn't like rules. He's a free person who just does everything. Sally is a more organized person who likes to follow rules. And then The Cat comes into their lives. He tries to make Conrad follow rules a little bit more and tries to make Sally loosen up a little bit." The Cat in the Hat is tentatively set for release on Nov. 21, 2003.

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