The 43-year-old half-Cuban American has signed on to star in Sony Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment’s in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Annie.
Cannavale, who most recently appeared in Woody Allen’sBlue Jasmine, will play a bulldog political adviser to Foxx’s character as he makes a mayoral run in New York.
The film is set for release on Christmas Day 2014.
Gluck is currently revising the film’s screenplay, which was written by Emma Thompson and rewritten by Aline Brosh McKenna. It’s based on the comic strip and the musical stage play Annie, with book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin.
Cannavale will next appear in the Jon Favreau-directedChef opposite Favreau and Scarlett Johansson, and the Dan Fogelman-directed Imagine with Al Pacino, Jennifer Garner and Annette Bening.
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