Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Weaver Takes Playbook

Jacki Weaver is in talks to join the cast of David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook says The Hollywood Reporter.


The pic adapts author Matthew Quick's 2008 book of the same name

The story follows a delusional former high school history teacher (Bradley Cooper) who's just been released into the custody of his mom (Weaver). Believing that he’s only been away for a few months instead of the four years he just spent in a mental institution, the teacher sets about wooing back his ex-wife. but becomes involved with an eccentric neighbor (Jennifer Lawrence) with problems of her own.

Robert De Niro also stars as Cooper's dad

Production kicks off later this Fall.

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