Watch the first trailer for this Christmas' modern retelling of the Annie musical with Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz.
One absolute in this life is that the sun will come tomorrow….and an adorable little girl will be singing about it in the latest Annie adaptation of the Tony winning musical. But this time, that little girl will be an Oscar nominate actress.
In a 21st century retelling of the story, director Will Gluck, working from a screenplay he shares co-writing credits for with Aline Brosh McKenna and Emma Thompson, casts the Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quvenzhané Wallis as little orphan Annie, a child with big dreams of getting out of Harlem and away from her crude foster overlord Ms. Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). Fortunately, she is taken in one day by the rich, handsome, and politically hopeful Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx). Together with her new would-be father, as well as Rose Byrne and Bobby Carnavale, she will sing her way out of that hard knock life.
The film is produced by Gluck, James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, and Shawn “Jay Z” Carter. It also looks to be a wide updating of the material when Warbucks now means mayoral candidate Stacks.
Annie will be in theaters on Christmas Day 2014.
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