Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are talking about starring in the famous adaptation and Pulitzer prize-winning play created by Tracy Letts, the “August: Osage County.” The film will be shot starting next summer.

The play was first performed in the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago on the year 2007. It went all the way to Broadway and London productions where it garnered the Tony Award for best play and Pulitzer for drama.

A man named Harvey Weinstein had been trying to develop its film version in 2007. But, John Wells is said to direct the film for the Weinstein Company. Wells writing and directing debut on “The Company Men” will be launched on October 22, 2010 by the Weinstein Co.

The play revolves around a conflicting family filled with buried pains that have come to see each other after their patriarch dies. The main characters involve the matriarch of the clan, Violet and her three daughters with whom Barbara is the oldest daughter.

In the film, Streep takes the role of Violet and her confrontational relationship with her daughters while Roberts takes the role of Barbara, as well as her estranged relationship with her husband.

Roberts previously starred in the movie, Eat Pray Love. She will appear next year in Tom Hanks ‘Larry Crowne’ for the Universal. On the other hand, Streep’s last casting was made in the 2009 comedy shows, “Complicated”, as well as “Julie and Julia”.

The movie is starting to create a buzz in the entire celebrity world. This is going to be a prestige film that is yet to award Julia Roberts, Street and the Weinsten Co. for their first-class performances.