Cats Movie Gets Robert Fairchild, Mette Towley, and Jennifer Hudson

Posted on June 19th, 2014

Cats Movie Gets Robert Fairchild, Mette Towley, and Jennifer Hudson
The musical Cats is being turned into a movie and the project is heating up, as four new cast members have join the adaption. Mette Towley, Jennifer Hudson, Robert Fairchild and Ian McKellen have all signed on to star in the movie, which has been in the works for several years but now appears to be moving toward production now with the addition of these cast members, but one that proves that Paramount is trying to make this thing a hit.

the musical is based on T.S. Eliot's whimsical collection of poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical brings together a tribe of Jellicle Cats on a moonlit evening, who must make the "Jellicle choice" to decide which of them will ascend to the mysterious Heaviside Layer to be reborn. It's the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history and, until 2006, was the longest running. It held that title for nearly a decade, starting in 1997. The musical was awarded seven Tony Awards in 1983 and won the Laurence Olivier Award in both 1982 and 2015.