Rebel Wilson Joins Tom Hooper's 'Cats: The Musical' (Exclusive)

Posted on July 14th, 2016

Rebel Wilson Joins Tom Hooper's 'Cats: The Musical' (EXCLUSIVE)
Rebel Wilson has been cast in Paramount's musical movie based on the broadway hit by Andrew Lloyd Webber,  'Cats: The Musical' as Jennyanydots.

She joins Robert Fairchild, Mette Towley, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, Laurie Davidson, Suki Waterhouse, Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Alexandra Daddario and Francesca Hayward. Tom Hooper is set to direct the film. With Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Debra Hayward set to produce the film.

This project has been in development since 2011. The plot of the film is over a single night, 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.

is a featured character in the musical Cats. she is The Gumbie Cat, who during the day sits, and naps, and spends the nights running the household once the family are asleep.

Jennyanydots is a kind, doting, motherly character. She has a vested interest in the well-being on not only the other Jellicles, but rats, mice and beetles. She seems to be well versed in knitting, crocheting, tatting, and (if her creation of a the Beetle's Tattoo is any sign) choreography.

She spends the day sitting on "anything that's smooth and flat". She is less active than the younger cats, but watches everything going on around her with fascination and enthusiasm.

"Cats: The Musical" is looking at a Christmas 2017 release. Kira Goldberg is overseeing the project for Paramount Pictures.