Andrew Lloyd Webber hated the Cats movie so much he went out and bought a dog
“Cats was off-the-scale all wrong,” the iconic composer says of the CGI cat-astrophe

Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind popular musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and The Phantom Of The Opera, has dropped all niceties when it comes to the heavily mocked and absolutely tragic film adaptation of his musical Cats in 2019. You know, the one with the overly sexual anthropomorphic cats featuring Jason Derulo, James Corden, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, Judi Dench, and Jennifer Hudson?
In an interview with Variety, Lloyd Webber says the source material for Cats was sold to Amblin, where it was initially set to become a Steven Spielberg-directed animated feature. However, the project was eventually handed to director Tom Hooper, known for his work on the film adaptations of Les Misérables and The King’s Speech. Previously, Lloyd Webber called Hooper’s approach to the film “ridiculous.”