Can you imagine Jennifer Aniston as a prison inmate? Can you imagine her in a country music band? No, we can’t either, but she’s attached to a movie where she’ll be both. The movie, Goree Girls, is based on the true story of an all-female country music band in a Texas prison in the 1940s. The eight women involved were one of the first all-female country and western groups in the US, and became a public favourite, eventually getting pardoned.
The movie is due to be directed by Michael Sucsy, who’s Hollywood’s flavour of the month at the moment following his HBO movie, Grey Gardens, picking up an impressive 17 Emmy nominations. Goree Girls will mark his cinematic film debut.
While a Goree Girls movie was being developed for quite a while at Dreamworks, that studio eventually decided they didn’t want to make it and put the project in turnaround. It’s now been bought by Overnight Productions, who’ve managed to attach both the director and star.
Although we still can’t quite get our heads around Jennifer Aniston as a country and western prisoner (maybe they’ll just put her at the back pretending to drum), we’re kind of intrigued to see it.