Renee Zellweger has been in talks with Warner Bros. in accordance with the film "White Oleander". If successful she will play Pfeiffers daughter.
Hollywood Reporter has the following report:
John Wells and Hunt Lowry will produce the project, which is based on Jane Finch's 1999 debut novel of the same name that tells the contemporary story of a woman (Pfeiffer) who murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life and how her daughter (Zellweger) must navigate a new reality through a series of Los Angeles foster homes. The daughter is eventually asked to falsify her testimony at a trial to free her mother.
Mary Agnes Donoghue wrote the screenplay adaptation. Warner Bros., Time Warner Trade Publications and Warners-based Wells Prods. jointly ponied up $1 million to acquire film rights to the novel, which was published by Little, Brown & Co. (HR 5/7).
Warner executive vp production Kevin McCormick is overseeing the project for the studio.
Zellweger, repped by CAA and manager John Carrabino, earned a Golden Globe for her performance in USA Films' "Nurse Betty." Zellweger is scheduled to segue after "Oleander" to Jeremy Leven's "Lovers, Liars and Thieves" with Robin Williams and Antonio Banderas for Victor and Grais Prods., Act III Prods. and Miramax Films. She will next be seen on screen in Miramax/Universal Pictures' "Bridget Jones's Diary."
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