First performed in '07 the show revolves around a family's buried pains and present conflicts after its patriarch dies. Meryl Streep would play the drug-addicted matriarch, while Julia Roberts would play the eldest daughter who is estranged from her adulterous husband.
Juliette Lewis is in talks to play Karen, the self-deluding youngest daughter. Chris Cooper plays Streep's brother in law. Abigail Breslin will play Roberts’ angry and acerbic pot smoking daughter Margo Martindale plays Mattie Fae Aiken, the sister of Streep's character.
Mulroney will play Steve, the not-quite-who-he-seems businessman fiancé of Karen.
John Wells will direct the film from a screenplay adapted by Letts.
Harvey Weinstein George Clooney Grant Heslov Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler will produce the pic.
Shooting kicks off this Fall.
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