Mike Binder, who recently wrote and directed "Reign Over Me" and also penned and helmed "Man About Town" and "The Upside of Anger", has been tapped to adapt Kate Jacobs' novel "The Friday Night Knitting Club" for Universal Pictures and producers Christine Peters and Julia Roberts.
The film will star Roberts as a single mom who juggles the demands of running a knitting store with raising her teen daughter. Her regular customers gather once a week to work on their latest projects and chat. When a tragedy occurs, the customers are forced to realize they've created more than just a knitting club. I have not read the book so cannot comment on it's merits or lack of, but what a sweet idea it would be to reteam the ole cast of Steel Magnolias for this.
Mike Binder can write smart and witty dialogue and what better cast could he have then the one that helped stamp some of the best movie quotes into our heads than that of Sally Field, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Darrel Hannah and Shirley Mclaine (I have no idea the ages, numbers or the sex of the charactures in the book so this could all be just one big ole fantasy in my head). Well one can dream!
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mnyah....why am I not excited by a new Julia Roberts flick? Ok so I loved her in Erin Brockovitch (best Oscar dress and speech EVER) and a smart sassy comedy along the lines of Steel Magnolias would be great. But I just can't help feeling that this will end up being like a Cadbury's Creme Egg... so gooey and sickly sweet at its centre that it is almost too much to swallow.... :S
Coming from the man who ate 7 of these sickly confections on Easter Monday!!!
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