Alexandra Daddario Joins Cast of Musical Movie 'Cats'

Posted on July 3rd, 2016

Alexandra Daddario Joins Cast of Musical Movie 'Cats'
American actress, Alexandra Daddario is following up her monumental casting in  Baywatch with a new role in Paramount’s Cats  musical, according to Deadline. Mette Towley, Robert Fairchild, Jason Derulo, Ian McKellen, Laurie Davidson, Suki Waterhouse, Jennifer Hudson ( Dreamgirls ) Idris Elba and Taylor Swift are all set to appear in the film. Daddario will be playing Rumpleteazer in the film.

The story will follow a tribe of cats called the Jellicles make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) is directing as his first feature film with producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Debra Hayward, and songs written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The movie pounces into theaters on December 25th, 2017, with principal photography set to begin later this year at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.