Tom Hooper Lets His 'Cats' Out of the Bag in First Trailer
- by Leland Aguilar
- in Entertaiment
- — Jul 19, 2019
For all of you non-musical theatre geeks out there, we're sure you're wondering, what's a Jellicle cat? The original musical won six Tony awards.
"We've used digital fur technology to create the most ideal covering of fur", said Hooper, who previously directed the musical Les Misérables and won the Best Director Oscar for The Kings Speech.
The list of cast members changing their Instagram names includes Taylor Swift as Bombalurina, Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella and Jason Derulo as Rum Tum Tugger.
"My first memories with performance go back to when I was in Pennsylvania growing up", Swift, recalled in the video. Tony victor, James Corden portrays Bustopher Jones, a wise and respected member of the Jellicle group.
Cats just released their first official trailer, and it's.
Watch the trailer above.
A fan on Twitter captured the change, which also included Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots Ian McKellen as Gus The Theater Cat and Idris Elba as Macavity.
The new single will reportedly be a song from the Cats soundtrack. [We] have people coming together from all different corners of entertainment.
Elba said: "The scale of this film is huge - three or four times bigger for the cat perspective".
Swift beforehand opened up about her expertise filming the film on The Graham Norton Present, the place she admitted she acquired the extra out of rehearsing than the remainder of the forged. "I snapped my achilleas tendon and I thought that that was my history with Cats, but it turns out not to be", she says. Swift touches on the devoted work on set, explaining her rush to rehearsal straight from her own singing tour. In the video shared, the Cats cast, including Taylor and Idris, takes us behind-the-scenes and shows us the extravagant sets designed for the authentic feel.
Directed by Tom Hooper, the film tells the story of a tribe of cats, inspired by TS Eliot's collection of poems, Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats.