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Cats

Directed by Tom Hooper · starring Laurie Davidson, Francesca Hayward and Idris Elba

  • 11 facts
  • 2019
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Cats: trivia

All 11 facts

  1. 1

    Destiny?

    In 'Six Degrees of Separation', Paul (Will Smith) tells dinner guests his father is making a movie of the hit play 'Cats'. Amongst the guests excited to be an extra in the movie of Cats was Sir Ian McKellen.

  2. 2

    To the big screen

    This is the first adaptation of 'Cats' since the 1998 made-for-television BBC movie.

  3. 3

    Change of sex

    This is the first time Old Deuteronomy as been represented as female, Judi Dench.

  4. 4

    A failed attempt

    Steven Spielberg's Amblimation planned to adapt the musical into an animated movie, but abandoned it when the studio shut down.

  5. 5

    A feline coincidence

    By coincidence, Taylor Swift had released the first official merchandise for her two cats, Olivia and Meredith, earlier the same day that her casting in this movie was announced.

  6. 6

    Exclusive songs

    Andrew Lloyd Webber has written new songs, exclusively for this movie.

  7. 7

    Possible candidates

    Anne Hathaway and Rihanna were considered for parts.

  8. 8

    Tom Hopper

    Tom Hooper's second musical movie after Les Misérables (2012).

  9. 9

    Successful musical

    The stage version is the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history, and the sixth-longest-running in London's West End.

  10. 10

    Movie adaptation

    This is Andrew Lloyd Webber's fifth musical to be adapted into a movie following Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Evita (1996), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).

  11. 11

    Release date changed

    Universal Pictures originally planned to release Wicked (2021) on this release date.

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