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Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston is on bit of a role. She's picked up a couple casting gigs of recent including Goree Girls, a true story about an all-female country band in a Texas prison in the 1940s. She will topline.
Jennifer Aniston for Goree Girls
Overnight Productions picked up the project after DreamWorks put it into turnaround. The studio is hoping to have production on Goree Girls up and running by January, with DreamWorks likely to distribute once complete.
Michael Sucsy will make his feature directorial debut with the film, as well as polish up the script. If the name sounds familiar, it was Sucsy who directed Grey Gardens for HBO. The network film earned the director 17 Emmy Award nominations.
"If you connect the dots between these projects, I think they are both survivor stories, about people whose human spirit doesn't give up, and it's musically driven, the way Grey Gardens was," Sucsy told Daily Variety. "There is something about music that invigorates the spirit to keep going, even when you don't have freedom."
Like Grey Gardens, this will be Sucsy's second project in a row focusing on female title characters.
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