He's the co-creator of Empire and a screenwriter of Lee Daniels's The Butler, Game Change, and a little thing called The Hunger Games. Deadline reported in 2018 that Danny Strong would be penning the script. I hear the creative team is pretty star-studded. And Nancy's originally scruffy love interest, the infamous Bill Sikes, will be Game Of Thrones star Lena Headey in another gender-swapped part, according to Digital Spy. That is, unless you're one of his 42,000 Instagram followers.Īdele is rumored to be playing the embattled lady of the night, Nancy, however that's yet to be confirmed. We're vamping because not much else is known about the Hollywood newcomer who is somehow portraying a sweet little cockney-accented boy. Here's what else we know about the Oliver! remake, including the familiar-looking chap in the titular role. Plus, British singer-songwriter Rita Ora is playing Fagin's right-hand gal, the Artful Dodger, in a gender-swapped part, so that should give you another indication of the hybrid bops we can expect from the soundtrack. And with Ice Cube (once) reportedly signed on to also produce, according to a potentially stale Deadlinearticle, we bet a lot of Lionel Bart's classic tunes like " Consider Yourself" and " I'd Do Anything" will feature some uptempo rapping. Though Oliver!, and of course the Dickensian classic, are set in Victorian England, Twist is naturally getting a modern, hip-hop reimagining.
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The movie took home the Best Picture Academy Award, while the Broadway show scored a Tony five years prior. Oliver!, the 1968 film adaption of the acclaimed musical (and book), follows a young orphan who escapes sordid workhouse conditions only to be "adopted" by a group of hooligans led by the swarthy Fagin and his band of pickpockets. The beloved Charles Dickens tale is getting the remake treatment in a Disney flick called Twist. The reboot stars Jude Law's lookalike son, Rafferty Law, along with Michael Caine, Rita Ora, and Game of Thrones's Lena Headey.įans of Oliver Twist, coooonsider yourselves in luck.Twist, a remake of Oliver!, the beloved musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale, is filming in London.
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