The First Trailer for Cats Reveals Wildly Ambitious VFX Musical

While Tom Hooper’s Cats is based on the legendary, long-running Broadway musical, you will not be watching stars made up to look like cats. Hooper has instead deployed the latest performance-capture technology to turn his star-studded cast into cats. This means the likes of Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Judi Dench, and James Corden will be felines. Their faces will be recognizable, but instead of having pasted whiskers and painted cat noses,

The Cast of Cats Will be Shrunk to the Size of Actual Cats

First, right off the bat, our featured image is of an actual cat from Captain Marvel. That’s Goose—who was played by four different cats. He stole most of the scenes he was in. Now Tom Hooper is one-upping Goose in a major way. In Hooper’s upcoming adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical Cats, the remarkably talented cast will be shrunk to the size of actual cats.

Cats Production Begins as Full Cast is Revealed

The adaptation of one of Broadway’s most iconic shows, Cats, is officially becoming a movie. The Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper, is helming the film, with a stellar cast providing him ample star power. It’s Hooper’s first film since 2015’s The Danish Girl.

The adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show, which is the 4th longest-running in Broadway history, is intriguing for many reasons.

A Remarkably Talented Cast Has Been Announced for Tom Hooper’s Cats

This could be the memory of a lifetime. Superstars of stage and screen are coming together for the ultimate Broadway classic. Picture Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden, and Sir Ian McKellen together and what musical comes to mind? If you were remarkably thinking of Cats, you are psychic. I never could have predicted the news that the aforementioned performers will all adapt the phenomenon for the big screen.

It sounds like a ‘Crosswalk Musical’