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Will Gluck is directing the project, which has a host of producers: Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment banner partner James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Jay-Z. Also producing are Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith through Marcy Media.

Gluck recently revised a script by Emma Thompson and Aline Brosh McKenna.

Sony is eyeing a late fall production start for an anticipated 2014 release.

Foxx already is proving to be a Sony favorite. He currently is shooting The Amazing Spider-Man 2, in which he plays villain Electro, and will star as the president in the studio’s Roland Emmerich tentpole, White House Down, which opens June 28.

Foxx is repped by CAA, Rick Yorn at LBI, and Del Shaw.

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