Jamie Foxx in Negotiations for "Annie" Movie- Page 2

[bwaylyric]

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)]

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

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

[John Adams]

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]

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

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

[Kad]

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.

[Kad]

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.

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

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:16pm

^ Even more so when you hear that Sondheim saw it four times and loved it.

[Joviedamian]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:23pm

Jamie should play Rooster and James Earl Jones and Daddy Warbucks!

Love the name Warbucks...because War=Bucks..

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:24pm

Right, that's what he was called that. He was a war profiteer.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:34pm

I just noticed your new avatar, Phyl. Love it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:35pm

Thanks!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 9:37pm

Bitch, that avatar made me cackle.

And I love the idea of RuPaul as Grace. She can teach Annie about charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.

[sephyr]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 11:17pm

I want Norm Lewis in the role!!!

[SweetLips]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 11:23pm

Just asking--How can this Annie have red hair?

[JP2]

Posted: 4/29/13 at 11:54pm

Cool-aid.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:00am

I had to google that--a flavoured powder that you mix with water-and presumedly apply to hair--a different colour every day !!

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:04am

It's a double entendre that might not play outside of America: Kool-Aid is both a fruity drink that can be used as "poor man's hair dye," but also a stereotypical drink associated with poor blacks because it's the cheapest thing on the market, being only a few cents for a full pitcher's worth.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:12am

You guys are just so funny. Do you think Annie should drink a lot of grape soda and play dice on the street, too? Should her teeth be white or should she have a grill? Will Sandy be a pit bull she fights for cash? What other stereotypes would you like to see in the movie?

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:24am

Will Grace actually be peddling beauty products, from the salon?

[Wildcard]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:34am

Rihanna had red hair. Though chances are Annie's hair will be like Nicki Minaj. You know, like for the 21st century

[SweetLips]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 12:57am

JohnnyBroadway--Gracie has fled north but the Pony is still plodding along[without her].

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 1:07am

New subplot Grace is running from her sugar daddy. Oh wait.....

[SweetLips]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 1:27am

You've got it all a..up--Grace is running AFTER her sugar daddy.

Sorry people--no more personal interruptions to this serious topic. Updated On: 4/30/13 at 01:27 AM

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 10:22am

We are making this new Annie out to sound like it was written by the guy in "Bamboozled." If this production is ANYWHERE near as stereotypical as we're making it out to sound, it'll have songs like:

You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Grill
Little Hoes
We'd Like To Thank You, Colonel Sanders
Compton Street
B.E.T.
I Don't Need Anything But Booze

Starring Tracy Morgan as Annie, Jamie Foxx as Big Poppa, Snoop Lion as Punjab, and Donald Glover as Miss Hannigan in drag, with Don Cheadle and Nicki Minaj as her fellow villains.

It will be so terribly offensive and wrong-headed that it will literally move back in time and prevent Obama from ever having been president and rob Halle Berry of her Oscar. It will be the "Springtime for Hitler" of musical theatre. The space-time continuum of civil rights will be so wibbly-wobbly that Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben will miraculously appear back on their grocery items.

ORRRRR... maybe it'll just be an urban take on the tropes of the Little Orphan Annie story, with minimal connection to the musical we love, just a franchise reboot overall.

[AnthVoice2010]

Posted: 4/30/13 at 10:23am

This is gonna be awesome - let's hope they keep any Broadway people out of it. A film is a film. Theatre is Theatre.