Pop superstar Taylor Swift will take to the silver screen alongside Jennifer Hudson in a film adaptation of the popular hit musical Cats , reports said on Friday.
The movie is the latest project for British filmmaker Tom Hooper, who brought novel-turned-musical Les Miserables to the big screen and won an Oscar for directing The King's Speech .
Cats , composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and featuring the classic musical ballad Memory , opened in London in 1981 and originally was staged on Broadway from 1982 to 2000, the fourth-longest run in history.
Based on poems by T.S. Eliot, Cats tells of a feline tribe — in human form on stage — called the Jellicles who decide who among them will make a fateful ascent into a new life.
Cinema industry news site Variety said that Hudson would play Grizabella, a formerly glamorous cat who longs for acceptance.
