Cats (2019 film) and Eric Underwood joined the cast. Principal photography began on December 12, 2018. The film is due for release on December 20, 2019. Cats (2019 film) Cats is an upcoming British–American musical fantasy comedy-drama film based on the musical of the same name, which in turn was based on "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot. It will be directed by Tom Hooper, his second musical film following 2012's "Les Misérables", and stars Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Ian McKellen, and Judi Dench. The film is scheduled for release on December 20,
T. S. Eliot one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhaps the "most perfect", though it was not well received by everyone. The poem's groundwork of orthodox Christianity discomfited many of the more secular "literati". In 1939, Eliot published a book of light verse, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" ("Old Possum" was Ezra Pound's nickname for him). This first edition had an illustration of the author on the cover. In 1954, the composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems for speaker and orchestra in a work titled "Practical Cats". After Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis