Confirmed: Meryl Streep And Julia Roberts Cast In AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

It's official. According to Deadline Hollywood, Meryl Streep will play Streep will play the role of Violet Weston, the drug-addicted, paranoid mother, and Roberts her eldest daughter, Barbara Fordham, in the film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, August: Osage County, written by Tracy Letts. John Wells directs.

August: Osage County follows the Weston family women as their lives suddenly clash when family troubles arise and force them to return to the "Midwest house they grew up in, as well as the dysfunctional woman who raised them." The Weinstein Company announced Wednesday that the film that will go into production this fall. 

August: Osage County is a darkly comedic play by Tracy Letts. The June 28, 2007 world premiere production was produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, and closed on August 26, 2007. Its Broadway debut was at the Imperial Theater on December 4, 2007 and transferred to the Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. The Broadway show closed on June 28, 2009 after 648 performances and 18 previews.

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