1905 Movie News Stray cat Bob is back! Recently, the movie "Bob's Christmas Gift" released a poster, announcing that it will be screened in the UK on November 6th and will land on a pay-on-demand platform. The stray cat Bob passed away on June 15 this year, and this movie has become its "legacy".
In 2007, a down-and-out musician, James Bowen, who was destitute and suffering from drug addiction, came across and adopted the abandoned orange cat Bob, who accompanied each other one person and one cat to help Bowen out of the haze. In 2012, Bowen wrote this touching story into a book "A Stray Cat Named Bob", and subsequently created "The World in the Eyes of Bob the London Street Cat", "Bob's Gift" and "The Little Book of Bob" and other works. These 4 books have been translated into 40 languages and sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
In 2016, the story of "The Stray Cat Bob" was put on the big screen by director Roger Spotiswood, with actor Luke Tredway playing James, and the cat starred by Bob. The film was highly acclaimed, and the global box office reached 16.05 million US dollars. The sequel "Bob's Gift" starred Treadwell and Bob's return, directed by Charles Martin Smith, the director of "A Dog's Way Home", the film tells about James looking back on the last Christmas when he and Bob were discussing life on the street, and The story of how Bob helped him through the most difficult period will be released in the UK on November 6.
