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| RnR4eva |
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Forever wrote: So it will be this the movie that she will shoot this summer? No more hope for "Wanted" or "The senator's wife"????
Wanted is in need of a director also, so it is not the say this one will definitely start shooting soon. I am with the rest of you and just want her to do something lol I really don't care what happens first, as long as it happens. |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:15 pm |
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I found this updated article from Hollywood Reporter-they've deleted a few things and added a few things.
The Hollywood Reporter
It's 'Girls' night in for Aniston, DreamWorksBy Tatiana Siegel
June 13, 2007
Jennifer Aniston is tuning up a period musical at DreamWorks titled "Goree Girls," which she will produce as a potential starring vehicle.
The project is based on a true story about a group of eight women serving time in Texas' Goree Prison during the 1940s who formed one of the first all-female country and western acts in the country and captured the hearts of millions of fans in the process.
Aniston and her producing partner Kristin Hahn optioned Skip Hollandsworth's May 2003 article in Texas Monthly titled "O Sister Where Art Thou," which recounted the story of the women, who eventually were pardoned. Margaret Nagle, who wrote Brad Silberling's upcoming "The Lost Boys of the Sudan," is adapting. The studio is out to directors.
"We are so happy that Jennifer Aniston has brought this project to DreamWorks Studios as a producer," DreamWorks topper Stacey Snider said. "She has an intuitive sense of what can turn a strong concept into a film, and we look forward to working with her as we bring 'Goree Girls' to the screen."
Aniston, a former partner in Plan B, has several producing projects in development via that relationship. She also has set up post-Plan B films like "Counter Clockwise" at Universal Pictures.
She is repped by CAA, Brillstein-Grey and attorney Craig Jacobson.
Nagle, whose writing credits include HBO's Emmy-winning "Warm Springs," teamed with Aniston when Nagle penned a biopic about war photographer Dickey Chapelle. The untitled film is in development at Plan B and Warner Bros. Pictures. The scribe also is the creator and executive producer of the Lifetime original series "Side Order of Life," which debuts July 15.
She is repped by UTA and attorney David Matlof. |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:18 am |
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Jennifer Aniston to produce 'Goree Girls' for DreamWorks
The actress is on board to produce and likely star in the 1940s comedy about one of the nation's first all-female country acts.
By Sheigh Crabtree, Special to the Times
June 14, 2007
Jennifer Aniston may need to brush up on her yodeling, banjo and steel guitar now that she's producing the period country-and-western musical "Goree Girls" for DreamWorks Pictures.
The actress is on board to produce and likely star in the 1940s song-laden comedy about one of the nation's first all-female country acts, a group whose members were also guests of the Texas penal system.
Aniston will be joined by seven other singin' and pickin' actresses cast as part of the Goree All Girl String Band, which is remembered as the Dixie Chicks of its day for the radio performances it put on from a Texas music hall.
Aniston and her producing partner, Kristin Hahn, hired Margaret Nagle (HBO's "Warm Springs") to adapt the screenplay from a Texas Monthly article. DreamWorks, Aniston and Hahn have sent the script out in search of a director with no scheduled production start to date.
The group of eight female Texas prisoners performed live every Wednesday evening in the early 1940s to an estimated 7 million Americans tuned into radio station WBAP-AM in Fort Worth.
The women � some of whom were in prison for cattle rustling, robbery and murder � joined together with the hope of "singing their way out" of Goree State Farm, a few miles south of Huntsville, according to Skip Hollandsworth, who wrote the 8,000-word profile "O, Sister Where Art Thou?" for Texas Monthly in May 2003.
The women were allowed to change out of their prison uniforms (starched white linen dresses) and into light tan shirts, brown western-style skirts, white cowboy boots and, tied around their necks, brown bandannas each week for their public appearances, thanks to the Texas prison system's bid for a little favorable publicity following reports of escapes, beatings and gunfights in their facilities.
Hollandsworth's article is loaded with nostalgic movie hallmarks: The period prison life depicted in "The Green Mile," the comedic female camaraderie of women in uniform in "A League of Their Own" and mentions of familiar country-and-western standards such as "Way Out West in Texas" and "Sleepy Rio Grande."
The profile also alludes to the darker realities of prison life for women in the 1940s, such as forced sterilization, hard labor, segregated prisons, solitary confinement and vicious beatings, doled out especially to inmates caught engaging in lesbian sex.
Hollandsworth spent years researching the story and tracking down members of the original Goree All Girl String Band. The women never made a recording and lived in anonymity after prison.
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| llyaay |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:08 pm |
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| This is very interesting, I wonder who'll get cast for the other 7 girls? |
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| duffy |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:04 am |
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| Some of the articles have mentioned that Jen has some producing projects in development with Plan B. Does anyone know what that means? If she is no longer a partner, will she actually work on these projects? Or will she receive money from certain films still with Plan B? |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:08 am |
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| No one knows and we really don't want to speculate or go there.Too many things opened to speculation.So we have no clue-and I doubt we ever will.I'm more anxious to hear about the Kristin/Jennifer Production Company... |
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| foxy_roxy |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:49 am |
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| This sounds cool, I hope that it happens. It'd be interesting to see Jen as a semi-cowboy/prisoner and I'd love to hear her sing. |
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| tic tac |
| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:17 pm |
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Quote: ME: I just love the idea of Eleanor Roosevelt not having it all together, it makes me feel so much better, and more hopeful about not having it all together. And now you�re writing a movie for Jennifer Aniston called "The Goree Girls" where she plays a woman in prison, during the depression (talk about depressing!) who forms an all-girl country western band because the governor of Texas sometimes pardoned prisoners if he liked the way they sang. And that�s based on a true story, right?
MARGARET: Um, yes.
ME: Well it sounds great! Is Jennifer Aniston really that pretty in person?
MARGARET: Yes. Also she�s smart and funny and a really good singer.
ME: But we don�t hate her right, because that would be very not Grrl Geniusy of us, right?
MARGARET: Right.
ME: Did Jennifer Aniston have Thermage?
MARGARET: I have no idea, and if I did know, I wouldn�t tell you.
ME: Nice friend.
MARGARET: I gave you a job, what more do you want?
http://grrlgenius.ivillage.com/love/archives/2007/07/side_order_of_life.html |
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| stardahling |
| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:13 pm |
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I REALLY hope this project happens. Not only does it sound like an interesting story, but it also has singing :).
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:42 am |
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stardahling wrote: What's a Thermage? I think it's something similar to botox. Just healthier, I think.
tic tac, thanks for posting. The interviewer bugs me. I can't take this interview all that seriously. |
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| Meg |
| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:35 pm |
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I can't help but laugh when I see Jennifer and singing put together Has she been hiding a secret talent from us for years after always talking about being so scared to even sing with her friends?
This could wind up with an awesome cast of talented women though. In that way, it seems like such a Jen project because we know she thinks there's nothing more powerful then a group of women. |
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| tic tac |
| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:39 pm |
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found this, i don't know if it means anything:
http://www.themovieinsider.com/m4304/goree-girls/ |
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| marinez |
| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:24 pm |
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tic tac wrote: found this, i don't know if it means anything:
http://www.themovieinsider.com/m4304/goree-girls/
Idk, but I LOVE the idea of this project, even if she doesn�t star in it and just produce it, this will be good.
It seems to me that the next movie she will do is the one with Aaron Eckhart, and I don�t like the plot of that movie. |
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| dragonfly |
| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:37 am |
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| It sounds sooo interesting. i do hope it will be made. |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:20 pm |
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By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Sep 13, 2007
AND YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT IT BAD: Writer-producer Margaret Nagle reports plans are in the works for a sequel to her Emmy-winning (it took five out of 16 nominations in '05) "Warm Springs" historical drama about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
She'll be getting to that once she gets a break from "Side Order of Life," her acclaimed Lifetime dramedy. And after she does whatever work becomes necessary on "The Goree Girls" for Jennifer Aniston.
The latter project, which tells the true story of a singing cowgirl western group that became a national sensation in the 1940s -- the gals were in prison in Texas together -- has a completed script and is awaiting a director. Aniston will produce and may star. "We're real happy with the way it turned out," Nagle says. "This is the second movie I've written for her, and she's such a joy. She completely understands and is supportive of the writing process. She speaks in a language a writer can understand. And because I'm a former actress, we can talk actor-to-actor, as well."
Nagle is passionate about depicting the next chapters of FDR's life and reminding people "what he went through, becoming president when this country was in its gravest crisis, the Great Depression. It's so shocking to realize, they had 75 percent unemployment, money no longer meant anything, the birth rate had leveled off, and suicide and mortality rates had tripled. Many people actually believed we would be better off with a dictatorship than democracy."
The prolific -- and obviously eclectic -- talent is currently up to her eyebrows in work as creator, writer and producer of "Side Order of Life," which "is a seven-day show, which means we work much faster than a normal show. 'Grey's Anatomy,' for instance, is an 8-day show, and they have three times our budget." |
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