Cats
2019
3.7
Cats

'Cats' trivia and fun facts

To the big screen

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

Exclusive songs

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

Successful musical

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

Tom Hopper

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

Release date changed

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

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.

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).

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.

A failed attempt

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

Change of sex

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

Possible candidates

Anne Hathaway and Rihanna were considered for parts.

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