One of one of the most effective musicals in Broadway and West End history is finally making an official go for the cinema. After years of back-and-forth, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats is going from stage music to feature movie.
The film started advancement in May 2016 when it was revealed that The King’s Speech supervisor Tom Hooper would go to the helm of the Universal Pictures and Working Title Films adjustment.
Billy Elliot screenwriter Lee Hall penciled the Cats movie screenplay, which will follow the very same story as the music, which was based on a book of children’s poems by T.S. Eliot. The story concentrates on a tribe of pet cats called the Jellicles and the evening they make what is known as “the Jellicle option,” determining which feline will certainly ascend to the “Heaviside Layer” and return to a new life.
The music attributes some of the most well-known program songs, consisting of the tune “Memory” sung by Grizabella.
While there have not been many details launched concerning what the film adaptation will certainly look like, the cast statement has us thrilled! It consists of an Oscar victor, a Wielder of the Flame of Anor, a specialist karaoke vocalist, and a happy member of the cat-lady gang. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Keep checking out to see who’s been cast to bring the cherished cats of the Broadway musical to the big screen.