Gracey to helm Hugh Jackman's Barnum pic
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Fox’s ‘Greatest Showman on Earth’ features Jackman as the circus icon
Just weeks after signing on to direct Disney’s revisionist Snow White pic “The Order of the Seven,” commercials helmer and vfx veteran Michael Gracey has become attached to direct Hugh Jackman in 20th Century Fox’s P.T. Barnum pic “The Greatest Showman on Earth.”
Jenny Bicks (“Sex and the City”) wrote the original contemporary musical, which Jackman is producing with his former producing partner John Palermo and Laurence Mark (“Dreamgirls”). Project came about after Jackman, Mark and Bicks worked together on the 81st Academy Awards, which Jackman hosted, Mark exec produced and Bicks helped write.
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