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Actress Willow Smith attends the Premiere Of Sundance Selects' 'First Position' at Aero Theatre on April 22, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. (Valerie Macon/Getty Images)
It's official: the Smith family is ready for another big screen close-up.
In an interview with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts, on Wednesday, Will Smith confirmed that the youngest of the Smith clan, Willow, 11, would be following in her parents and older brother Jayden's (The Karate Kid) footsteps, with a starring role in the modernized film version of the 1982 musical Annie. 
Will Smith, who is slated to produce the Sony Pictures project, also confirmed to Good Morning America that his Men In Black 3 co-star, Oscar winner Emma Thompson, wrote the script for the contemporary Annie film. 
The film will be set in modern-day New York and will feature a host of new updated songs. Hip-hop, mogul, and hit maker Jay-Z is in charge of the music and is expected to write new musical tracks for the soundtrack.  Jay-z is not new to re-imagining Annie tracks.  His 1998 hit single "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" featured samples from the Broadway musical version.
Willow told People magazine in 2011 that she wanted Brad Pitt to star as her adoptive father, Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.  The rest of the cast has yet to be announced and they are still looking for a production team as Annie is set to begin filming in 2013.
"We're looking for directors so the management will come up with a director in the next week or two weeks," Thompson told the BBC.
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SOURCE: The Grio
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