Mouse Hunt - The animatronic 'Catzilla' puppet at Stan Winston Studio. For director Gore Verbinski’s 1997 film, MouseHunt, Stan Winston Studio built an oversized animatronic cat - dubbed ‘Catzilla’ - which had radio control functions and a telemetry controller. Six puppeteers operated the mouse and cat puppets on sets that were scaled up to make the animals appear the appropriate size. | Stan Winston School of Character Arts