Cats film will see Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and extra seem like

There’s little doubt about it: we love cats. Cats, alternatively? Well, we’re but to make our minds up somehow.

That’s as a result of, as Cats‘ launch date looms over us, we have realized that the big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is taking an… fascinating method.

At a latest behind-the-scenes take a look at the challenge at CinemaCon, Cats director Tom Hooper promised that the movie will likely be “on a much bigger scale than you can possibly imagine” (by way of Deadline).

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– Ian McKellen getting ready for Cats film by getting in contact together with his “inner pussy”

Not solely does that scale embrace digital expertise that may create “the most perfect covering of fur” on the actors, it additionally features a option to make the forged look the scale of precise cats.

Moving away from Cats‘ on-stage (tried and examined) method of human-sized people taking part in cats, the movie goals to be a little bit extra practical.

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Talking concerning the on-set challenges of being, y’know, a number of occasions bigger than a home cat, Idris Elba defined: “You step into a world where everything is three or four times bigger than it would usually be, for the cat’s perspective.”

Ever puzzled what Idris, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, James Corden, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson and Jason Derulo (!) would seem like as cats? No, us neither.

But, hey, we’ll quickly discover out.

Cats is ready for launch in UK and US cinemas on December 20, 2019.

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