The Annie Remake Gets a New International Trailer

We can ask why this remake needs to be done, or we can just accept it is finally here, or will be released in 2015 (6th February 2015 in the UK).  The fact is Annie has been remade before and it is a story that works in the modern world without damaging the original.  Looking at the trailer, I’m not exactly sold on this interpretation but it does have one thing going for it, and that is the fact that Quvenzhané Wallis is a very good actress.  Also think of it this way, at least it’s not another remake done by the Smith family to get their kids on the screen again.

Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they’d be back for her someday, it’s been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything’s about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) – advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) – makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he’s her guardian angel, but Annie’s self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it’s the other way around.

Annie hits UK cinemas 6 February 2015

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