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'Cats' Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber Opens Up About The Film Adaptation · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. The big screen adaptation of Cats, based
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Speaker 1: on the hit Broadway musical wasn't exactly a roaring success,
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Speaker 1: despite having big names attached like Taylor Swift, Aadris Elba
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Speaker 1: and James Cordon. And not only was it a box
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Speaker 1: office dad, losing over a hundred million, it also got
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Speaker 1: scathing reviews from critics, fans, and now the guy largely
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Speaker 1: responsible for the original Andrew Lloyd Webber, who wrote all
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Speaker 1: its music, he just told The Sunday Times the whole
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Speaker 1: thing was ridiculous. The main problem with the film was
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Speaker 1: that the director decided that he didn't want anybody involved
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Speaker 1: in it who was involved in the original show. Andrew
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Speaker 1: also didn't have anything kind to say about James Gordon's performance. Yikes,
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Speaker 1: but hey, if anybody's entitled to an opinion, it's the
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Speaker 1: man who created the show in the first place. That's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.