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Glee’s Ryan Murphy, who was Sony Pictures and Will Smith’s choice to direct Willow Smith in the re-imagining of the Broadway musical Annie, has dropped out of contention. Talks broke off and he’s not doing the film, I’m told. The project was recently set at Sony Pictures by Overbrook Entertainment partners James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith in the joint venture they formed with Jay-Z to generate films. Willow, who is Smith’s daughter, will play the lovable orphan.
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sorry, but annie is not black,she is a ginger child, say what you want, i’m mexican and all for diversity but this, no, as for will smith putting his daughter in this, well ” I guesse some parents just don’t understand”
the characteristic “ginger” is not based on race. there are red heads of every race. look it up, bigot. your horizons are obviously in need of broadening.
agreed. open your eyes cause you’re missing it. If films could cast to Mr. pacino to play a cuban, a white person to play a japanese (akira) why not a beautiful black girl to play Annie.
Wake up
This town needs more color. it just adds continued flavor.
Ryan sounds smarter every day.
That reminds me of that Ally mcbeal or Boston legal episode where a mother sued a production because they picked a little less râlantes kid to play Annie instead of her daughter who was black.
And i tend to agree, Annie should be a red head but if they set it up in modern America notwithstanding orphanages do not exist anymore, why not? But still…
And i agree The Smiths pushing their kids in showbiz like that is very wrong.
Ryan was very very smart to run away from this MESS. The Smith/Pinkett children are obnoxious showbiz brats with little talent. Watch how they strut about with their chins up.
The same could be said for Ryan…
Perhaps the meanest showrunner out there. Just cold.
Exactly, methinks there isn’t a room big enough in Hollywood to hold the egos of both Murphy and the Smiths.
Ryan is smart. This is a disaster waiting to happen .Sorry , but those children are obnoxious.
If Annie can’t be bi-curious than Ryan wants nothing to do with it…
An “Annie” re-make may be the single worst idea in Hollywood. I am no fan of the Smiths, and avoid everything they do.
Agreed! I’m sure it will flop and Murphy is smart to stay away. The Smith’s have gotten very wierd when it comes to their kids. Who starts a production company just so their kids can remake and destroy movies??
which films have the smith kids destroyed? curious to know
It seems you have no clue on what you just said. Over Brook has been around a long time — many, many years before one of Will Smith’s kids started acting in an Over Brook Production.
Well, obviously it means that Will can take a break from making such stirring cinema as Men In Black 3 and the oft-rumoured Bad Boys 3 and get the kids to go out and earn cash for the family coffers along the way.
The fact that there are better kid actors out there and the girl’s hair song was diabolical doesn’t matter. They still make dough at the end of the day.
Annie is the “worst idea in Hollywood”? I doubt that. Also, who cares that instead of being a ginger, she’s black? Seriously, it’s the story that endears itself to kids.
This movie will make a bazillion bucks and introduce the story to a whole new generation.
SMITHS BE GONE!!
They will bring in a music video director but it’ll be Will’s movie he’ll tell the director what he wants. Will should direct this himself he has the ability but not the self-discipline to direct this so he’ll be the power behind the director’s chair. Would Willow throw a temper tantrum if this doesn’t happen? Damn you daddy you promised me I could be Annie in a real movie!
Time to hop in the director’s chair, Will.
I do hope this project sinks. Don’t the Smith kids have a better way of spending their parent’s money?
Considering how well “The Karate Kid” did, it’s the other way around.
” lovable orphan.”
With willow smith in the role, she will be a spoiled brat.
Pushed?
like i said say what you want, i’d feel the same way if they cast a latina girl, i grew up whith the original and just it should be left alone, annie is white end of story, call me a mexican bigot whos pro white you trippen
Lol good one
Not getting this ..Is this Annie supposed to be a contemporary version with Willow Smith?
So no more Depression,orphanage or FDR?
How will this introduce Annie to a new generation? It isn’t Annie..Ryan Murphy is wise to exit.
My kids are 4 and 7 and already know the story. It’s easy to find on DVD. They do not need to be introduced to it via the spoiled Smith kids.
This movie just got marginally less god-awful. I hope it’s a trainwreck.
If people want to make another version of Annie, that’s fine by me. Black, White, Asian, whatever. But if you are going to “update” the songs (which is inevitable, right?), then, please don’t call it Annie, ok?
This isn’t a remake of a film that happened to have music in it.
This is a stage musical that was made into a film that is now being remade into another movie entirely.
Jeez Louise.
“Annie” is just “Oliver” in drag anyway.
Stop player hating on Will. What’s wrong with Will smith? A little jealousy I see.
No just a little reality “kee”.
Let Paris Barclay do it. He’s talented, great with musicals.. and he’s black.
Seriously, people- so what if Willow Smith plays Annie? How does it change the story?!
@both i was out of line to say ginger, too much watching southpark, but to me annie is white with red hair and freckles, its a classic movie how it is, as far as will smith and family why remake it, and besides i’m mexican i would say the same if a latina child was cast. So call me a bigot, i dont get that. So should we change her in the newspaper comics also?
On a side note what did yall think when the goerge lopez show (which had good ratings) was cancelled for the geico caveman show which only lasted about 4 episodes?