- ANNIE
Nominated for an Academy Award for her phenomenal role in
last year's Beasts of the Southern Wild, nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis is
said to now be up for the leading role in Will Gluck's Annie, EW reports.
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| Quvenzhané Wallis |
Based on a daily comic strip that debuted in 1924,
"Little Orphan Annie" told the story of a little girl who, after
escaping from an orphanage, is taken in by a rich Oliver "Daddy"
Warbucks.
Better known as a Broadway show, the strip was adapted in
1977 as Annie and is famous for musical numbers that include
"Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard-Knock Life".
The show was adapted for the screen twice, including a 1982
John Huston version and a 1999 made-for-TV Disney movie.
James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Will Smith will
produce the new film version through their Overbrook Entertainment banner, and
by Shawn “Jay Z” Carter, Jay Brown, and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith through Marcy
Media. Gluck will revise the film’s screenplay, which was written by Emma
Thompson and rewritten by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the musical stage play
“Annie,” book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin
Charnin, and on “Little Orphan Annie.”
The film will be set in the modern day.
The studio is eyeing a 2014 release date.
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