Suki Waterhouse and Taylor Swift Joins Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats: The Musical'

Posted on May 9th, 2016

Suki Waterhouse and Taylor Swift Joins Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats: The Musical'
Suki Waterhouse will play Demeter, while Taylor Swift will play Bombalurina in  'Cats: The Musical' 

In development for quite some time, Paramount's Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical project  'Cats: The Musical' has seemingly landed two new stars. According to a story at Variety, Suki Waterhouse and Taylor Swift has entered talks to star in this musical movie, meaning that Waterhouse will be playing Demeter, while Swift will be playing Bombalurina.

Taylor Swift though known best as a musician, is no stranger to acting. She appeared in The Given, Valentine's Day, and voiced a character in ''The Lorax. ''Something like Cats certainly will play her strengths as a performer.

The plot for 'Cats: The Musical' is over a single night, a tribe of cats called the Jellicles make what its known as “The Jellicles Choice” and decide which cat will ascend the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

Tom Hooper is set to direct this film, while Paramount Player's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing, as well as Debra Hayward, who worked with Working Title on the adaptation Les Miserables and was instrumental in bringing Cats to the banner.

Production is set to begin this fall.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's  'Cats: The Musical' pounces into theaters on December 25th, 2017.