Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for "Annie" Movie

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

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.

NO. NO. NO.

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

Anika (as in Noni Rose)?

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Shanikuah

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

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

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

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

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

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