Two years after The Weinstein Company picked up the rights to make a feature film out of Tracy Lett's Tony-award winning play, August: Osage County, there's finally a bit of movement on the casting front. Deadline reports Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are in talks to star as mother and daughter in the film which will be adapted by Letts and directed by John Wells. The Weinstein Company is releasing Wells' directorial debut, The Company Men, in theaters on October 22nd.About.com's Play/Drama Guide Wade Bradford offers this synopsis of the play: "August: Osage County is set on the plains of modern day, middle-class Oklahoma. The Weston family members are all intelligent, sensitive creatures who have the uncanny ability of making each other absolutely miserable. When the patriarch of the household mysteriously vanishes, the Weston clan gathers together to simultaneously support and attack one another."
If the deals go through, Streep will play Violet, the drug-addicted matriarch of the Weston family. Roberts would play her oldest daughter who's dealing with a cheating husband and a pot-smoking teenage daughter.
Julia Roberts recently starred in the screen adaptation of the bestseller Eat Pray Love. Streep's latest film was the romantic comedy It's Complicated with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
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