Top Cat Heading to the Big Screen in 3D + New Poster

Not too sure what to make of this but Vertigo have just announced via a press release that they’ll be bringing ‘Top Cat: The Movie’ to the big screen. I can still remember to this day my dad doing impressions of Top Cat saying hello to Office Dibble in the tradition Top Cat voice but I am struggling to work out how they’ll transition the cartoon to the big screen. But hey, they’re doing it with Postman Pat so why not Top Cat too!

Based on the classic animated Hanna Barbara cartoon series, Top Cat: The Movie sees TC (Top Cat) and the gang face their biggest adventure yet.  A new tech-savvy police chief joins the force and not only threatens to retire bumbling Officer Dibble, but stop the feline antics in Hoagy’s Alley, once and for all.

Here’s the original theme song, poster and the official press release below and we’ll see it on the biog screen August 2012.

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VERTIGO BRINGS TOP CAT: THE MOVIE TO THE BIG SCREEN

London Monday 23^rd January 2012:  From the makers of StreetDance 1& 2 and Horrid Henry, Vertigo Films are pleased to announce the UK theatrical release of Top Cat: The Movie in 3D in August 2012.

Based on the classic animated Hanna Barbara cartoon series, Top Cat: The Movie sees TC (Top Cat) and the gang face their biggest adventure yet.  A new tech-savvy police chief joins the force and not only threatens to retire bumbling Officer Dibble, but stop the feline antics in Hoagy’s Alley, once and for all.

Top Cat: The Movie was created by Anima Studios and will be released both 2D and 3D formats.

Vertigo Film’s Rupert Preston and Allan Niblo said,  “Top Cat is an iconic and much-loved character known by nearly every parent in the UK. We are thrilled to be bringing Top Cat, his mischievous gang and Officer Dibble to a whole new generation”

Richard S. Guardian, of Guardian Entertainment International, negotiated the sale on behalf of Lightning Entertainment and Anima Studios with Vertigo’s Allan Niblo and Rupert Preston. Guardian has said, “I’m excited that Top Cat is being released in the UK by as innovative and dynamic a company as Vertigo Films.  They have their fingers on the pulse of what audiences want to see.  The producers and I are delighted that the team that has handled films such as StreetDance, Monsters, and Horrid Henry will be putting their efforts behind Top Cat”.