Tracy Letts Pens New "The Grapes of Wrath" Script

Award winning playwright Tracy Letts is in talks to write the adapted script for the new film version of author John Steinbeck's award-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" at DreamWorks says The Wrap.

The studio is still  making a deal with Steinbeck's estate for the feature rights to the 1939 book. Steven Steven Spielberg is due to produce, but will not direct.

The 1939 Great Depression-era novel tells the tale of a poor family of tenant farms driven from their Oklahoma home by drought.

John Ford directed the previous 1940 film adaptation which starred Henry Fonda as the iconic protagonist Tom Jane Darwell and John Carradine.

The film won two Oscars for directing and supporting actress.