HBO Films has greenlighted Grey Gardens, a movie starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange that's based on the 1975 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' eccentric cousin and aunt.
The movie is based on the documentary by Albert and David Maysles. It follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.
The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved at the time.
Along with Barrymore and Lange, other original auspices on board are commercials helmer Michael Sucsy, who is directing and wrote the script with Patricia Rozema (This Might Be Good), and executive producers Rachael Horovitz (Little Black Book) and Lucy Barzun Donnelly (The Go-Getter). David Coatsworth (HBO's John Adams) is producing.
It's yet to be determined if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water.
The movie is based on the documentary by Albert and David Maysles. It follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.
The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved at the time.
Along with Barrymore and Lange, other original auspices on board are commercials helmer Michael Sucsy, who is directing and wrote the script with Patricia Rozema (This Might Be Good), and executive producers Rachael Horovitz (Little Black Book) and Lucy Barzun Donnelly (The Go-Getter). David Coatsworth (HBO's John Adams) is producing.
It's yet to be determined if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water.
- 9/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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