Merrick here...
THIS piece in Variety says that Will Smith is looking into the possibility of producing an ANNIE musical with Sony. The theoretical project would star Smith's daughter Willow, who has recently been ramping up a singing career of her own...
Word is Jay-Z (who worked with Willow on the song embedded above) may be looking to collaborate on the movie. At this time few other details are known - nor is it clear if the picture would be a period piece, or a modernized iteration.
There have, of course, been countless interpretations of ANNIE, including a hugely successful 1977 Broadway musical which brought us songs like "Tomorrow" and "It's A Hard-Cock Life" - I mean "It's A Hard-Knock Life." Said musical was eventually adapted for the bigscreen in a generally flat and grating manner by director John Houston in 1982.
Harold Gray's LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE daily comic strip, which started all of this, debuted in 1924. A subsequent radio adaptation famously caught the ire of young Ralphie Parker in A CHRISTMAS STORY.
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