To sing R&B….just kidding! But Dakota has really grown up in the last couple months! She and Ms. Keys have signed on to do "The Secret Life of Bees," a female-oriented coming-of-age tale based on the Sue Monk Kidd best-seller.
Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Sophie Okonedo are also on board the Fox Searchlight project, which is scheduled to go into production next month in North Carolina.
The studio is planning on a release later in 2008. "Bees," a drama set in the Southern U.S. in the 1960s, centers on teenager Lily Owens (Fanning) and her friend Rosaleen (Hudson) who flee their hometown to escape their harsh upbringing and seek to uncover the mysteries of Lily's late mother.
Along the way, they encounter three beekeeping sisters (Latifah, Okonedo, Keys) who take the pair in to their South Carolina home. Dakota's come a long way since Charlotte's Web!
