George Clooney, Grant Heslov to Produce 'August: Osage County' for Weinstein Co.

George Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures producing partner Grant Heslov have come aboard to produce the big-screen adaptation of August: Osage County for the Weinstein Co.

Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are attached to star in the project, based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play,which will be directed by John Wells (Company Men).

Clooney and Heslov join producers Steve Traxler and Jean Doumanian.

Written by Tracy Letts, the play follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Streep will play the pill-popping matriarch, while Roberts will portray her daughter.

Smokehouse last produced The Ides of March, another adaptation of a play, and is developing The Monuments Men, A WW2 thriller Clooney would direct.