Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for "Annie" Movie

[Fan2]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for "Annie" Movie#1

Posted: 4/29/13 at 3:51pm

According to the Hollywood Reporter.

>>Jamie Foxx is in negotiations to star opposite Quvenzhane Wallis in Annie, the update of the classic comic strip-turned-musical that Sony is making with producers Will Smith and Jay-Z.

Foxx would play a character named Benjamin Stacks, a variation of the Daddy Warbucks personage, who takes in the spunky orphan girl being played by Wallis. (You know he’s rich because his name literally means stacks of 100 bills, aka Benjamins.) The Django Unchained star has received an offer from the studio and sources say his team has begun to negotiate.

Will Gluck is directing the project, which has a host of producers: Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment banner partner James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Jay-Z. Also producing are Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith through Marcy Media.

Gluck recently revised a script by Emma Thompson and Aline Brosh McKenna.

Sony is eyeing a late fall production start for an anticipated 2014 release.<<


Daddy Warbucks/Benjamin Stacks Updated On: 4/29/13 at 03:51 PM

[ClydeBarrow]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #3

Posted: 4/29/13 at 3:59pm

Benjamin Stacks? C'mon now. Why not like Benjamin Dollahz to really drive the point home?

"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

[darquegk]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #4

Posted: 4/29/13 at 4:01pm

This was always supposed to be a ground-up reimagining, a la The Wiz or Tina Fey's proposed revision of "Bye Bye Birdie" in which Birdie was a pathologically troubled and troublemaking rap superstar who had to be kept on a very short leash by his management team...

Actually, now that I think of it, it seems like Fey took her rejected Birdie idea and built it into Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #6

Posted: 4/29/13 at 4:28pm

I'm sorry....Jamie Foxx as Daddy Warbucks or HOWEVER how they renamed him?! How can you go from a NICELY-MADE, TRUE-TO-THE-MUSICAL, OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTION (Les Miserables) to a HORRIBLY, CHEAP, REWRITTEN REMAKE like this? Especially if this is one of the MOST BELOVED musicals of all time?!

Thank whatever that Willow Smith had the brains to quit this!



Updated On: 4/29/13 at 04:28 PM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #7

Posted: 4/29/13 at 4:30pm

NO. NO. NO.

[broadway guy]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #8

Posted: 4/29/13 at 4:35pm

A mess.

[Wildcard]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #9

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:06pm

They might as well change Annie's name too. Suggestions? Precious?

[JP2]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #10

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:12pm

I thought fo' sho' they'd go with Big Daddy Warbucks.

[ClydeBarrow]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #11

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:13pm

Anika (as in Noni Rose)?

"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

[JP2]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #12

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:14pm

Don't you mean Anniqua?

[all that jazz]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #13

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:18pm

Shanikuah

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #14

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:28pm

LOL Black people and their funny names LOL

[all that jazz]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #15

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:33pm

[JP2]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #16

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:33pm

So glad you understand, as much as Sony and Will Smith understand.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #17

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:36pm

I understood that once people started speculating on changing Annie's name, there was nowhere for this thread to go but down.

Updated On: 4/29/13 at 05:36 PM

[JP2]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #18

Posted: 4/29/13 at 5:42pm

I understood this thread was going downhill once people began to complain about a change to the source material in a movie we all knew was a re-imagining.

Updated On: 4/29/13 at 05:42 PM

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #22

Posted: 4/29/13 at 6:08pm

I understood this thread was going downhill once people began to complain about a change to the source material in a movie we all knew was a re-imagining.

Well, Sketch, things were slightly confused when Martin Charnin gave an interview that implied this was a remake of the original and he was okay with it.

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[beautywickedlover]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #23

Posted: 4/29/13 at 6:29pm

I really like Jamie Fox as an actor and singer. I would not mind seeing him in this film at all.

[evic]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #24

Posted: 4/29/13 at 6:30pm

You just know they want Kerry Washington for Grace (name change) and Whoopi as Hannigan (name change).

[bwaylyric]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #25

Posted: 4/29/13 at 6:32pm

Speaking of "Precious," Mo'Nique can reprise her Oscar-winning role in place of the Miss Hannigan character.

[rosscoe(au)]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #26

Posted: 4/29/13 at 7:17pm

Will Smith and his family just need to go away, a long way away...

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

[John Adams]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #27

Posted: 4/29/13 at 8:55pm

OKAY...
Don't immediately dismiss this... but

The world does NOT need yet another Annie movie. An African-American version will not be something new, interesting or enjoyable. After all this time, it seems to be the sloppiest of seconds.

Will Smith should have kept his ears and eyes open for newer projects. (Can you guess what I'm going to suggest....?)

Yup. Matilda the Musical.

You know *someone* is gonna make the movie version. Why does the cast need to be Caucasian?

Updated On: 4/29/13 at 08:55 PM

[ACL2006]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #28

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:03pm

can we get Fantasia as Lily, Dennis Rodman as Rooster & RuPaul as Miss Hannigan??

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[Kad]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #29

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:04pm

"How can you go from a NICELY-MADE, TRUE-TO-THE-MUSICAL, OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTION (Les Miserables) to a HORRIBLY, CHEAP, REWRITTEN REMAKE like this? Especially if this is one of the MOST BELOVED musicals of all time?!"

How do you know this is going to be cheap or.. "horribly"?

LOL casting black Academy Award winning or nominated actors in a re-imaging of a musical! WHO ARE THEY GONNA GET NEXT, TYLER PERRY? Shalanaqua from the weave store? I MEAN OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESECRATE THE SACRED TEXT THAT IS ANNIE.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Kad]

Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for #30

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:09pm

Some of you are gonna **** a brick when you hear about what they did to the Wizard of Oz.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."