The first trailer for Working Title and Universal’s Cats movie, the Tom Hooper-directed adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, nearly melted the Internet when it launched online in July. Will see a repeat of that today as the full trailer has just launched?
Premiering in 1981, the musical is inspired by a T.S. Eliot book and follows a group of cats who come together for an annual event where one of the felines is chosen to ascend to the ‘Heaviside Layer’ and be reborn. The musical produced such notable songs as “Memory,” “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats,” “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer” and “Mr. Mistoffelees”.
It won Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards and ran for twenty-one years on the West End and eighteen years in London. To this day it remains the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history behind only Phantom of the Opera, Chicago and The Lion King but just above Les Miserables.
Taylor Swift, Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, Jason Derulo, Rebel Wilson, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson and others star.
Cats opens December 20th.
