Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
#1Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 7:22am
Well, it's certainly an interesting choice.
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broadwayjim42
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#2Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 7:53am
Emma...step away from the Smiths.
No good can come of this.
#2Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 8:17amThompson would actually be a very good Hannigan.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#3Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 9:39amShe would...it's associating herself with the caravan of egos known as the Smiths that scares me.
#4Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 9:48amI'd much rather see Quentin Tarantino write a new book for this.
#5Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 10:04amThe latest news is that the film is based on the comic strip, not the musical, and therefore is an all-new project. Jay-Z is composing new music. I would presume Emma Thompson is not so much rewriting the book as adapting a new screenplay from the extant source material.
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#6Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 12:42pm
Where is the sense and sensibility in this decision?!
I'm glad Annie is getting the "Empire waist" treatment for little Willow. I've always thought of her as an Austenian heroine.
Emma writing "Annie" makes about as much sense as Roseanne writing "Howards End."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#7Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 1:30pmHow is that similar? Do you think "Annie" is too complicated for Emma Thompson for some reason?
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degrassifan
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#8Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 1:45pmWhy couldn't she do it? If she can pen the screenplay to the My Fair Lady remake, then surely she can do Annie. Who knows? It could be fun.
#9Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 1:51pm
Where did you get "complicated" from what I said?
It's her sensibility I was talking about. Hers is decidedly British. So is her humor, or hadn't you noticed?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#10Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 3:13pmI hope Jackie Chan gets to play Warbucks.
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#11Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 3:18pmcome on best 12 bars, Emma Thompson has proved time and time again that she is not limited to the classics.
#12Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 3:20pm
Not to the classics, but do you really think she's a good pairing with Jay-Z?
EDIT: Maybe they can get Julie Andrews to play Hannigan and rap a few numbers. She's not limited to the classics either.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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henrikegerman
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#13Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 3:34pmMixing it up can be hit or miss; but when it works, it can prove to bring out formidable strengths in suprising collaborators.
#14Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 3:41pm
Maybe she can do it, and maybe your'e right, henrik. I just think of "Annie" as such an American story.
It seems like this whole project is a recipe for disaster, but odder choices have been made with movie "bedfellows."
And playing devil's advocate here, Ang Lee directed "Sense & Sensibility."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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henrikegerman
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#15Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 4:00pmI appreciate that example, best12. Ang Lee would also not have been the expected choice for Brokeback Mountain or The Ice Storm either, two very American stories, but he aced them. Carol Reed, William Wyler and George Cukor weren't musical showmen, far from it, but they did pretty well with Oliver, Funny Girl and My Fair Lady. Anyone who's read Breakfast at Tiffany's would not have thought of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, but she made the film a classic. And as an example of off-brand screenwriting, Ingmar Bergman's name isn't the first you'd think of when it comes to sophisticated comedy, but there is no greater example of one in movie history than Smiles of a Summer Night.
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#16Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 4:03pm
I was assuming you meant Howard's End would be too complicated or something for Roseanne, and was trying to see how your analogy was apt.
But since you apparently meant British as opposed to Roseanne's American-ness, I would point you to the long history of British literature featuring beleagured orphans tortured by comically cruel adults.
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#17Emma Thompson to pen Will Smith/Jay-Z's Annie?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 4:08pm
Oh, sure. But I think she'd bring out the "Oliver" in the story, to say the least.
Come to think of it, those two plots are so similar (almost to the point of plagiarism).
Now, if Annie were slaving away in a workhouse and sold for tuppence as an undertaker's apprentice, Emma's my gal!
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