The CW Casts AnnaSophia Robb as Youthful Barbara Bradshaw

The CW has cast its youthful Barbara Bradshaw.AnnaSophia Robb, most broadly noted for taking pleasure in Crimson inside the 2005 Tim Burton feature "Charlie as well as the Chocolate Factory," will star inside the network's pilot "The Barbara Journals," "The Hollywood Reporter" knows. The project can be a prequel to HBO's "Sex as well as the City."Using the novel by Candace Bushnell, "Barbara Journals" involves a young Barbara Bradshaw as she comes old inside the eighties, asking her first queries about love, sex, friendship and family while choosing the cell phone industry's of secondary school and Manhattan.Fake Empire'sJosh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Len Goldstein ("Gossip Girl," "Hart of Dixie") will executive produce alongside Warner Bros. Television. Former "Sex as well as the City" scribe/co-producer Amy B. Harris will adapt it and performance showrunner. Miguel Arteta will direct the pilot.The initial book in Bushnell's origin story was launched a year ago and, like "Sex as well as the City," is told from Carrie's perspective. It makes sense the ambitious author through her relationship with Sebastian Kydd and competition with popular girl Donna LaDonna.Cinemax has the rights to "Sex as well as the City," with corporate cousin the CW hearing the help September and immediately undertaking for the project. Robb's reps hope this project will have the identical impact on her career as "SATC" which went from 1998-2004 on Cinemax and spurred some movies did for Sarah Jessica Parker's.The youthful actress joins the formerly cast Stefania Owen ("Running Wilde"), who'll play Carrie's 14-year-old sister inside the project.Furthermore to "Charlie as well as the Chocolate Factory," Robb's credits include features "Because of Winn-Dixie," "Bridge to Terabithia" additionally to "Jumper." The 18-year-old actress is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Schreck Rose. The Hollywood Reporter