{"id":44690,"date":"2018-10-16T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44690"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:06:38","slug":"idris-elba-in-final-talks-to-join-cats-yes-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/16\/idris-elba-in-final-talks-to-join-cats-yes-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Idris Elba In Final Talks To Join CATS. Yes, CATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cats-Macavity-Elba-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am one of many who believe Idris Elba can play any role. Yes, even James Bond. But can he play a villainous cat named Macavity in an adaptation of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical? I guess we will soon find that out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/10\/cats-idris-elba-joins-cast-andrew-lloyd-webber-musical-film-1202484208\/\">Deadline<\/a> says that Elba is in final talks to join Tom Hooper&#8217;s adaptation of <strong>Cats<\/strong>. He will be joining Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, and James Corden in the film.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that he will be playing Macavity, the villain of the show, who kidnaps the spiritual leader of the cats, Old Deuteronomy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cats <\/strong>is the fourth longest running musical in Broadway history and first opened in London&#8217;s West End in 1981. Based on Old Possum&#8217;s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, the musical focuses in a tribe of cats called Jellicle on the eve of their yearly celebration of their selection of one of their number to enter a process of reincarnation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cats <\/strong>is set to hit theaters in December 20, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Elba will be joining Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson in the screen adaptation of the popular musical. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/16\/idris-elba-in-final-talks-to-join-cats-yes-cats\/\" title=\"Idris Elba In Final Talks To Join CATS. Yes, CATS\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6083,10130,3077,2464,10129,8677,4637],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-andrew-lloyd-webber","8":"tag-cats","9":"tag-ian-mckellen","10":"tag-idris-elba","11":"tag-james-corden","12":"tag-jennifer-hudson","13":"tag-taylor-swift"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44690"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}