Annie Remake Poster Released

Columbia Pictures have released the official poster for the Annie film adaptation starring Quvenzhane Wallis as the titular comic strip star. You can check it out below.

The movie also stars The Amazing Spider-Man 2 villain Jamie Foxx as Benjamin Stacks, Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan, Rose Byrne as Stacks' assistant Grace and Bobby Cannavale. Though Annie debuted as a comic strip in 1924, the property is arguably best known for the 1977 Broadway musical and its 1982 film adaptation from director John Huston.

This interpretation, which reimagines some of the lead characters as black and renames Daddy Warbucks as Benjamin Stacks, also appears to be based at least in part on the musical version, as trailers feature snippets of some of the show's best-known songs.

As with any other adaptation that recasts the leads as people of color, the film (which nobody has seen yet) has already been the target of praise for its cultural openness and condemnation for its lack of fidelity to the source material.

Annie comes to theaters on December 19.