Casting News: Jason Derulo and Idris Elba Joins Paramount's New Musical Movie "Cats: The Musical"

Posted on June 21st, 2016

Casting News: Jason Derulo and Idris Elba Joins Paramount's New Musical Movie "Cats: The Musical"
It looks like that the project is finally moving forward, with more casting announced with Waterhouse and Swift being part of the film last month, this month, the two new actors Jason Derulo and Idris Elba had finally signed on for this project, and the director Tom Hooper is also determined to get his project of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved musical become a theatrical movie, and it's finally getting off the ground, and he's going to get some help with Jason Derulo and Idris Elba, who recently joined the cast.

Hooper had been working on this film since at last 2013, and he has watched it go through several writers and directors, including Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The film is finally set in stone, with Steven Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Angela Morrison who are currently executive producing.

Jason Derulo will play a feline name Rum Tum Tugger, who is rebellious and never satisfied, while Idris Elba will play the villainous feline, Macavity the Mystery Cat. (His other nicknames include the Hidden Paw and the Napoleon of Crime.) Macavity is, as all those nicknames suggest, the musical’s main villain, a criminal cat who can get away with just about anything. He gets a grand introduction by way of the number “Macavity,” in which two lady cats, Bombalurina and Demeter, sing all about his notorious ways. Perhaps getting this part is something of a dream come true for Elba

Derulo is behind such hits as "Whatcha Say" and " Talk Dirty," which went quadruple-platinum, and "Want to Want Me" and "Ridin Solo," which went triple-platinum. His song "Colors" was the 2018 FIFA World Cup anthem and was streamed over 115 million times, while his latest hit, "Goodbye," a collaboration with David Guetta that features Nicki Minaj and Willy William, has over 60 million streams on Spotify.

Derulo is repped by CAA and 23 Management.

The film will open Christmas Day 2017. Until then, you can watch the 1998 movie version of Cats: The Musical on VHS or DVD.