Susan Sarandon is in talks to become the matriarch of the Barkley clan.
Kate Edelman Johnson is producing a feature film version of "
The Big Valley," based on the TV show created by her late father, producer Louis F. Edelman, and writer A.I. Bezzerides. The Western series, which ran on ABC from 1965-69, starred Barbara Stanwyck as the matriarch of a ranching family in the 1870s San Joaquin Valley.