She is already an internet sensation with a book deal – and now a movie star in the making too. Let's hope she has thanked her agent
Age: 1.
Appearance: Take a wild guess.
OK, I'm picturing a cat. Yes.
But it looks – how can I put this? – almost disgruntled. There you go.
What a funny idea! Many people think so. And this is a real cat. Her name is Tardar Sauce (a misspelling of tartar sauce, which she was said to resemble), and she lives with the Bundesen family in Arizona. She looks grumpy because her mouth is slightly deformed by a genetic disorder.
Hilarious! It's essentially a type of feline dwarfism, which also restricts the mobility of her back legs.
Stop! Stop! I'm going to wet myself! Grumpy Cat first came to public attention last September when Bryan Bundesen, the brother of her owner Tabatha, posted a photograph of her on Reddit. Further photographs and videos followed, to which people added captions, and Grumpy Cat became...
An internet sensation? I'm afraid so. To date, the Bundesen family have made more than $100,000 from book deals, drinks tie-ins, merchandising and public appearances. There may be a Grumpy Cat movie now as well.
Really? Yes. Ben Lashes, Grumpy Cat's agent, has just sold an option to Broken Road Productions. "We think we can build a big family comedy around this character," says the boss, Todd Garner.
Sorry, Grumpy Cat has an agent? That's right. Lashes is a specialist in making money out of the image rights of cats that become popular on the internet.
And that's a job now, is it? Yup. He started out with Keyboard Cat, then took on Nyan Cat and Princess Monster Truck.
Princess what? She's a cat. That's her name. She has an absurdly pronounced underbite. "When it comes to cats, Ben knows who is going to be big," says Nyan Cat's creator, Christopher Torres.
Do you ever wake up feeling like the world got weird overnight? Daily.
Do say: "Hey, if I was being ritually mocked by millions of people, I'd be grumpy too."
Don't say: "There needs to be a Guardian Cat."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/may/30/grumpy-cat-strength-to-strength
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