The Weinstein Company has snatched up the rights to make a movie based on the 5-time Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County. TWC co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is a co-producer of the Broadway production and will produce the feature film. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts is working on the script.
In a press release announcing the project, Weinstein said, "This is such an extraordinary piece of material, which comes along once in a great while. I was blown away by Tracy's play and believe our movie will likewise have an incredible resonance with anyone who has ever been a part of a family."
"I am very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Harvey Weinstein again on August: Osage County – we had previously worked together on films such as Bullets Over Broadway and Everyone Says I Love You. I greatly respect his taste as a filmmaker and a distributor," added film and theatre producer Jean Doumanian. "I know he is equally passionate about Tracy Letts' wonderful play, which has spoken to so many people, and I look forward to collaborating with him on the film adaptation."
August: Osage County is the dramatic tale of a dysfunctional family set in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. There's no word yet on a director or cast.
Source: The Weinstein Company
