Despite his usually tough appearance on screens, Jamie Foxx is no stranger to family films thanks to the Rio movies and last year’s Annie. He’s taking a further step for a new animation, producing and providing the voice for a streetwise dancing mouse in Groove Tails.
He’s teamed up with indie company AMBI and director Cameron Hood to work on the new film, which finds him voicing Biggz, a mouse who has hit some hard times. In serious cheese debt to more dangerous rodent hoodlums, he finds himself caught up in the competitive world of street dancing. Whether that means he’ll be showing off his moves against humans (unlikely, given the size difference) or other animals (more promising – less chance to be squished by a wayward shoe) has yet to be decided.
And though this will be Hood’s first directorial effort, he boasts experience from DreamWorks and Illumination Entertainment, having worked on films such as Despicable Me 2 and How To Train Your Dragon. Foxx, meanwhile, is shooting crime thriller Sleepless Night and is signed to star in Blink and co-star in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver.
from Empire News
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