Letts to pen OSAGE COUNTY screenplay - film in the works

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Letts to pen OSAGE COUNTY screenplay - film in the works

Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:26pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120145.html

Fingers crossed for Grace Zabriskie and Meryl Streep as Vi and Barb.

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re: Letts to pen OSAGE COUNTY screenplay - film in the works

Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:26pm

****.

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:30pm

groan

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:33pm

CROSSES FINGERS FOR DAKOTA FANNING

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:37pm

Fingers crossed for Grace Zabriskie and Meryl Streep as Vi and Barb


Yes, Please!

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:40pm

Oh now come on! Doesn't AUGUST just scream "Make me a movie! Make me a movie!"

I'm excited.

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:41pm

People, Meryl Streep is too old.

Just because a Hollywood actress can afford to have multiple plastic surgeries doesn't mean she's not still 60.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:44pm

Wait what role do people want tpo see Meryl as? Vi or Barb?

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:46pm

I can see Laura Linney as Barbara and Sissy Spacek as Violet.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:51pm

Judy Davis has to be Vi. I will accept nobody else. She is born to play that role!

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:55pm

I'm on the Sissy Spacek team.

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:57pm

Just because Meryl is indeed 60, it does not diminish the fact that she can look much younger (despite any surgery she may or may not have gotten)... I think she could make it reasonably believable. However I love your suggestions as well Wannabe!

Updated On: 8/5/08 at 10:57 PM

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 11:01pm

Critics have ragged on Meryl for being too old to play Donna in MAMMA MIA, a character whose daughter is getting married.

Barbara has a 14 year old daughter. It just won't work. She needs to start playing roles her own age. It's not like she's some unknown actress and people don't know her real age.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 11:05pm

What are the chances of Deanna being brought on for the movie?

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 11:10pm

The most realistic possibility, and I doubt this would even happen, would be Oscar winner Estelle Parsons playing Violet in the movie.

If they want the film to make money -- which of course they do (what other reason would there be for making it into a film?) -- then they'll cast recognizable names with Hollywood credit.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

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Posted: 8/5/08 at 11:12pm

I would love if they casted the original inhabiters of the roles, but there is no shot in hell that will happen.

Anyway, I would love to see Sissy Spacek and Laura Linney as Violet & Barbara.

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 12:00am

I can see Judy Davis as Violet. Although she is not old enough, they could use makeup to make her look 10 years older.

Sissy Spacek would also make a good Violet.

I'm glad that Tracy Letts is writing the screenplay for it. Hopefully it'll be true to the stage version.. Bad direction will **** that up though.

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 12:03am

Hey how about Ellen Burstyn?

or Shirley MacLaine?

Jane Fonda? I can see all of these ladies as Violet.

Updated On: 8/6/08 at 12:03 AM

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 12:06am

With Letts adapting the screenplay, this has the potential to be one dynamite film.

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 12:10am

Love the idea of Jane Fonda as Vi

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:29am

Meryl Streep is my favorite screen actress but there is no way that she could pull off Barbara. She is much more appropriate for Violet, and I would actually love to see her tackle that role.
I also enjoy the idea of Jane Fonda as Violet, another choice that I would love is Sally Field.
The idea of Laura Linney as Barb is great, but I would like to see Rachel Griffith tackle the role (Patricia Clarkson and Toni Collette would work as well).
Somethingwicked's suggestion of Kathy Bates as Mattie Fae is perfect.
Marissa Tomei or Mary-Louise Parker for Ivy, Christina Applegate for Karen (another great suggestion from Somethingwicked), Frank Langella as Beverly, and Will Artnet as Steve.

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:33am

I'd like to see Toni Collette as Barbara, that'd be awesome.

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:39am

Kathy Bates has played this role time and time again. I'd like to see an actress play Mattie Fae who can bring something new to the table. It would just be the same old, same old with Kathy Bates. She is the obvious choice because she always plays fat, slobby women. The role needs someone who can bring some humanity to the role toward the end of the story.

Ivy needs to be plain. Marisa Tomei is a knockout. She wouldn't fit into any of these roles.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:51am

WannaBe, you're right about Tomei, she is a knock-out. I just kinda love her subtle acting (her very unglamorous, quiet--Oscar nominated-- performance in IN THE BEDROOM is beautiful), but I know what you mean. I do stand by my Mary-Louise Parker suggestion.
Bates has indeed played the role time and time again, but oh she is so good at it! And I do believe she could be quite wonderful during Mattie Mae's final scene with Barb.
The other actress that comes to mind for the role would be Jean Smart.

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Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:54am

i wish amy morton could be cast in the film. she's a knockout, and casting anyone else would be disrespecting her part in creating that role and delivering, in this theatregoer's opinion, the performance of the season.