Working Girl

After taking time off to start a family and make her Broadway debut in Three Days of Rain---America's Pretty Woman is getting ready to return to the big screen...



Adam Dawtrey reports from Cannes for Variety:

Julia Roberts (pictured) is getting back together with Working Title Films to produce and star in a movie about the wildlife conservationist Joan Root, who was murdered in her Kenyan home earlier this year.

The untitled project inspired by, Vanity Fair article "A Flowering Evil," will follow Root's earlier life making documentaries around the globe with her husband. After their divorce, she returned to Kenya where she devoted herself to saving Lake Naivasha from the ecologically damaging flower farm industry.

David Magee ("Finding Neverland") is writing the screenplay. Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce with Roberts via her [production company], Red Om. Roberts previously starred in WT's biggest box office hit, "Notting Hill."

The Joan Root movie is one of four projects being prepped to shoot early in '08...

Find out what else Working Title has in the pipeline here.

Though not a major fan--I have always liked Roberts and the way she handled her career. I think this role has the potential for putting her back in the thick of it--in a BIG way...