Andrew Lloyd Webber didn’t like the movie Cats either. The 72-year-old British composer, who wrote the original musical Cats in the 1980s, talks about his impression of the 2019 film in a new interview with The Sunday Times.
“The challenge with the film was that Tom Hooper decided, as he had done with Les Mis, that he didn’t need anyone to worry about the original series,” Lloyd Webber said of the Oscar-winning director. everything is ridiculous.
The film, starring Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, Judi Dench, James Corden and more, has been widely criticized by critics. It also won six Razzie Awards, Worst Film.
The original Cats musical aired in London’s West End for 21 years and on Broadway for 18 years, a record that was only ruined by Lloyd Webber’s hit show The Phantom of the Opera.
Lloyd Webber co-wrote the new song, “Beautiful Ghosts”, with Swift for the version.
“When you started betting on music, it was a charming and unsettling melody,” Swift told Lloyd Webber in a feature film of the film.
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