A feature film version of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is coming from Jean Doumanian Productions and Steve Traxler, according to Variety. Letts, who previously wrote a screen version of his play Bug, will adapt his Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning August script for the big screen.
No schedule, budget or casting has been set. "So many actors and stars have come to see it on Broadway, and we've gotten inquiries," Doumanian, Woody Allen's longtime producer and a member of the August Broadway producing team along with Traxler's Jam Theatricals, told Variety. "People are enthusiastic about the film version." Broadway lead producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel will executive produce the film.
August tells the story of the dysfunctional Weston clan of rural Oklahoma, who gather at the family home after the disappearance of the patriarch. A hit at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last summer, the play transferred to Broadway in the fall and is currently running at the Music Box Theatre. Many of the original cast members are expected to travel to London to star in an eight-week run at the National Theatre in November, directed by 2008 Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro.
