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"Like his father, Jaden Smith has always been a big action movie guy. A few years back, he threw down some kung fu in Karate Kid alongside Jackie Chan, then later starred in M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth with dad Will. It's been awhile since we've seen him on the big screen, because he's been too busy releasing mix tapes and dropping verses on his little sister's tracksand tweeting words of wisdom, but all that's about to change.\n\nJaden's signed on to star in the film adaptation of The Good Lord Bird, a New York Times bestseller about slavery in 1856 Kansas. It's written as satire, so you can expect\u2014as unlikely as it seems\u2014to laugh. Jaden will play a young slave who dresses up as a girl in order to escape his master with the help of an abolitionist, played by Liev Schreiber (whom you know from Scream and X-Men, and also being Naomi Watt's husband). In other words? The book is great and the story is great, so the movie's gonna be great, too.\n\nAnd, yeah, Jaden will be wearing skirts. But it's not like we've never seen that one before."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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