{"id":63787,"date":"2012-08-20T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/08\/20\/jay-zs-annie-remake-to-start-shooting-next-year\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:44:29","slug":"jay-zs-annie-remake-to-start-shooting-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/jay-zs-annie-remake-to-start-shooting-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z’s Annie Remake To Start Shooting Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay-Z’s Annie Remake To Start Shooting Next Year<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

August 20, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: BBC Newsbeat<\/a><\/p>\n

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With the musical film, Sparkle<\/a><\/strong>, now out in theaters, Jay-Z<\/strong>‘s film remake of the hit musical Annie<\/strong> is due to start shooting next year, says the screenplay writer and film star Emma Thompson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The actress said: “I have been writing the script for nearly three years, it’s exciting.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thompson also said she would look forward “to having dinner with Jay-Z”, who is writing the music for the movie.<\/p>\n

The Broadway production won the Tony Award for best choreography, best costume design of a musical, and best sound design of a musical.<\/p>\n

In 1998, when Jay-Z released his third album, ‘Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life,’ he scored a hit with the song ‘Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),’ which samples the song ‘It’s the Hard Knock Life’ from ‘Annie.’<\/p>\n

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The storyline is based on the 1982 film version and will take place in a modern day New York, with Will Smith’s daughter Willow taking on the lead role.<\/p>\n

“In the autumn, we get to go to LA to work with Willow and work on more of the script,” said Thompson.<\/p>\n

“Jay-Z has already started working on the music. We will start shooting in the spring in New York.”<\/p>\n

The film will include some of the old Annie songs, but some will also be cut to make way for Jay-Z’s reworking of the soundtrack.<\/p>\n

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When asked about 11-year-old Willow, Thompson replied, “I really like Willow. She is getting so tall. I mean both Willow and Jayden (her 14-year old brother) are remarkable.”<\/p>\n

Jayden Smith is a rap artist and Hollywood actor and appeared in the remake of Karate Kid movie in 2010.<\/p>\n

Thompson is appearing in cinemas as the voice of Queen Elinor in the new Disney Pixar film Brave.<\/p>\n

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