{"id":98443,"date":"2017-04-15T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98443"},"modified":"2017-04-15T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T22:19:43","slug":"queen-latifah-to-star-in-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/15\/queen-latifah-to-star-in-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah to star in &#8216;Flint&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98444\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17190538_10155196890008028_2710984431596629484_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98444\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17190538_10155196890008028_2710984431596629484_n.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a film about the Michigan water contamination crisis. (Photo: Queen Latifah\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17190538_10155196890008028_2710984431596629484_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17190538_10155196890008028_2710984431596629484_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17190538_10155196890008028_2710984431596629484_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17190538_10155196890008028_2710984431596629484_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapper Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a film about the Michigan water contamination crisis. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/QueenLatifah\">Queen Latifah\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013Rapper Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a film about the Michigan water contamination crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Brandt, Jill Scott and Marin Ireland will also join the cast as activists who fight to bring clean water to Flint, reported the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, entitled &#8220;Flint&#8221;, is based on Josh Sanburn&#8217;s February 2016 Time Magazine article, &#8220;The Toxic Tap&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cher was originally announced to star in the movie, but pulled out after her mother got sick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flint&#8221; will begin production next week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013Rapper Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a film about the Michigan water contamination crisis. Betsy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[17946,17945],"class_list":["post-98443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-flint","tag-queen-latifah","mauthors-pti-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}