This CCCC-up update (where KM UK reports on the careers of the other key players from the long running show) was looking like it could be shorter than most but Tracie has come through for us yet again! Phew!
The big news for Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is that she will be starring in a big screen version of the musical Annie for big studio Sony Pictures. Lots of other big names are involved with a cast that includes Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained), Cameron Diaz (There’s Something About Mary), Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), and Rose Byrne (Damages). Husband and wife team Will and Jada Smith are producing it through their own Overbrook Entertainment along with Mr Beyonce, Jay-Z, who is unsurprisingly involved with the music too. Dorian Missic (Southland) and Tracie will be playing Annie’s fake parents. Annie herself will be the wonderfully named Quvenzhané Wallis who shot to fame in Beasts Of The Southern Wild and can currently be seen in 12 Years A Slave. Last week the women fighting for their lives film Raze, which stars Tracie, Zoe Bell (Hollywood stuntwoman extraordinaire), Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: Rise Of The Cobra), and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) finally got a première showing in LA at the SpectreFest event. On a slightly different tack the cult favourite TV show Wonderfalls from 2004 gets a proper full series DVD release in the UK today, years after America. It’s HERE on Amazon UK (other DVD retailers are available). It was one of Tracie’s earliest roles.
A trailer has been released for the movie Death Valley, starring Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC). You can see the video, which is not for the squeamish or sensitive, on the official website HERE. Following on from last week’s theme of our CC cast not appearing in trailers for films that they are in, Jeremy is not even glimpsed in any of the 97 seconds the video runs for. The trailer reveals Death Valley to be a stark warning against the perils of drinking and driving. Take an old car and liquor into the desert with your friends for a good time and it is just inevitable that a scantily-clad woman will come running at you brandishing a gun and ending up dead. That’s what happens right? It’s what all the public information films and parents warn you about! Remember kids: don’t drink and drive! The cast list on the official site has Jeremy’s character named as Lucas Kern. I’m assuming that is a small typo. As I’ve previously reported the IMDb version Lucas Shore was likely wrong as a production still of Jeremy in a patrolman’s uniform included a name badge with “Kerns” on it. At the time of writing is no sign yet of a release date for Death Valley, which also stars Katrina Law (Spartacus), Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie), Victoria Pratt (Mutant X), Nick Tarabay (Spartacus) and Kelly Hu (guest star in nearly every TV show ever!).
Okay, that’s it, the new Annie adaptation could not get any more perfect. I can see myself going to this movie multiple times. Tracie Thoms is one of my ride-or-die actresses. The nice thing is that she tends to star in some pretty ace movies and I won’t have to go through another Cougars, Inc. in the name of supporting an actress. Kathryn is way too talented to have done that movie.