'CATS' TRAILER WILL PROBABLY
SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU!
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| Cats will meow this December, literally! |
Attention, spylings, we have a special broadcast today with fresh news and updates from
Comic Con which is raging currently over in San Diego. The day brought us the very first trailer for the live action movie musical version of famous
CATS and I don't know what to say, as someone said somewhere in comments it looks like stuff of nightmares with people in purrrfectly terrible masks of cats. And plus an annoyingly bad rendition of legendary song
Memories by infamously overrated Jennifer Hudson. If it is any consolation, at least part of the cast is amazing (if you can get over the fact that Taylor Swift is in it as well):
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| Judi Dench leads the cast as Old Deuteronomy! |
Wilson, Idris Elba, James Corden,
Ray Winstone, are just some of the better known names in the
Tom Hooper directed musical which is out a few days before Christmas.
CATS THE MOVIE MUSICAL Based on the book “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by
T.S. Eliot, the musical follows the Jellicle cats, a family of felines who go before the group’s leader Old Deuteronomy to see who will be selected to travel to the Heaviside
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| Sir Ian McKellen is, naturally, Gus the Theatre Cat! |
layer for a new life. Over the course of a single night, their tribe makes what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
'HIS DARK MATERIALS' TRAILER
PLUS DEMON ANIMALS PHOTOS
BBC has, meanwhile, released new trailer and photos (showing all the animals in the story) for their epic fantasy small screen TV series adaptation of
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| James McAvoy leads the cast as Lord Asriel! |
Philip Pullman's
HIS DARK MATERIALS which will also air on HBO later this Autumn! The first season follows Lyra (
Dafne Keen), a seemingly
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| Lyra and her demon animal Pan! |
ordinary but brave young girl from another world. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and becomes a quest
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| Armoured battle polar bear Byrnison |
to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. As she journeys through the worlds, including our own, Lyra meets Will, a determined and courageous
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| Stelmaria the snow leopard! |
boy. Together, they encounter extraordinary beings and dangerous secrets, with the fate of both the living and the dead in their hands.
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| Mrs Coulter's golden monkey demon! |
is her father Lord Asriel. The new photos show polar bear Byrnison, snow leopard Stelmaria, Lord Asriel's dæmon, the golden monkey, dæmon of
Ruth Wilson’s Mrs Coulter and Pan, Lyra's demon.
