{"id":245,"date":"2000-10-03T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2000-10-03T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=245"},"modified":"2011-03-21T00:39:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T00:39:58","slug":"webster-carries-torch-for-kleiser-on-indie-vanilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/webster-carries-torch-for-kleiser-on-indie-vanilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Webster Carries Torch For Kleiser On Indie &#8216;vanilla&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cathy Dunkley <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nikki Webster, the 13-year-old Australian girl who sang during the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, is set to star in the independent African feature film &#8220;Vanilla Gorilla&#8221; to be directed by Randal Kleiser (&#8220;Grease,&#8221; &#8220;Honey, I Blew Up the Kid&#8221;). Production is expected to begin in February for a targeted Christmas 2001 release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vanilla&#8221; is the story of a captive albino gorilla that learned American sign language and teaches it to a young girl (Webster) he befriends.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Gardner wrote the screenplay and will be a producer on the film with Normandi Brown and Tony Sloman. Sam Kute will executive produce, and T.J. Mancini and Erika Branna are co-producers. The project was packaged by Jerry Zeitman of the Agency. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allbusiness.com\/services\/motion-pictures\/4829346-1.html\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cathy Dunkley Nikki Webster, the 13-year-old Australian girl who sang during the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, is set to star in the independent African feature film &#8220;Vanilla Gorilla&#8221; to be directed by Randal Kleiser (&#8220;Grease,&#8221; &#8220;Honey, I Blew Up the Kid&#8221;). Production is expected to begin in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/webster-carries-torch-for-kleiser-on-indie-vanilla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Webster Carries Torch For Kleiser On Indie &#8216;vanilla&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}