The film will rely on motion capture technology in order to transform the actors into something that is close in appearance to actual cats
Bugsy Malone is an idea that never should have worked on film: would we really sit and indulge in a cast of children playing pretend cops and gangsters? Yet, under Alan Parker’s direction, and thanks to Paul Williams’s riotous lineup of songs, the film is not only a delight, but feels oddly subversive in the way its cast so gamely fill the roles of wisecracking ne'er-do-wells – a smart way to parody the cultural obsession with the machismo of the gangster genre.
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