Shirley MacLaine and Jacki Weaver will topline indie comedy "
Wild Oats" with Alan Arkin in negotiations to join the Wild Pictures production, to be directed by Howard Deutch.
Story centers on MacLaine's character accidentally receiving a Social Security check in the amount of $900,000 instead of the normal $900. At the incessant urging of her best friend -- portrayed by Weaver -- she deposits the money and escapes the small Ohio town for Las Vegas -- where their new life seems to be short lived when they discover that they have become media sensations and fugitives overnight, forced to outwit a trio of conmen and dodge Social Ssecurity agents.