{"id":19514,"date":"2012-08-16T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=19514"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:19:27","slug":"saldana-in-nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/08\/saldana-in-nina\/","title":{"rendered":"Saldana In Nina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19517\" title=\"SaldanaSimone081612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SaldanaSimone081612.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Zo\u00eb Saldana<\/strong> will be playing singer<strong> Nina Simone<\/strong> in <em>Nina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nina<\/em> is based on Simone&#8217;s 1992<em> I Put a Spell on You<\/em> autography.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Simone was a singer-songwriter who was also a civil rights activist in the 1960s. She recorded more than forty albums during her career, beginning with <em>Little Girl Blue<\/em> (1958). Most of her albums were released between 1958 and 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Nina has been in the works since 2010, with <strong>Mary J. Blige<\/strong> originally slated to take on the role of Simone. Funding difficulties led to her departure.<\/p>\n<p>Written by <strong>Cynthia Mort<\/strong>, the movie now has funding and will begin shooting in Los Angeles on October 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek&#8216;s\u00a0Zo\u00eb Saldana will be playing singer Nina Simone in Nina. Nina is based on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[4661,2410],"class_list":["post-19514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-nina","tag-saldana"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19520,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514\/revisions\/19520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}