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Meryl Streep to Star in Mamma Mia! Film
By Andrew Gans
11 Jan 2007
Academy Award winner Meryl Streep will head the cast of the film of Mamma Mia!, which will be produced by Universal in partnership with Playtone and Littlestar.
Variety reports that Streep will play the role of single mother Donna Sheridan, the part created on Broadway by Louise Pitre. Producers include Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman; executive producers are Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson as well as ABBA songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Phyllida Lloyd, who directed both the London and Broadway mountings of the international hit musical, will make her feature-film directing debut on "Mamma Mia!," which will begin shooting this summer in both Greece and London. The screenplay has been penned by Catherine Johnson, who wrote the book for the musical.
Producer Craymer told the industry paper, "[Meryl Streep] was always at the top of our wish list, and she encapsulates the spirit and energy and has the powerhouse qualities that character requires."
Although Streep has previously sung in the films "Postcards From the Edge" and "A Prairie Home Companion," "Mamma Mia!" would be her first movie musical.
Mamma Mia! employs the hit songs of famed pop group ABBA to tell the story of Sophie Sheridan, a young girl who hopes to discover the identity of her father. On the eve of her wedding, she brings three men from her mother Donna's past back to the Greek island they visited over two decades ago.
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1) A movie of Mamma Mia is against God's plan
2) Meryl Streep has made some whacked-out film choices since menopause.
Meryl Streep to Star in Mamma Mia! Film
By Andrew Gans
11 Jan 2007
Academy Award winner Meryl Streep will head the cast of the film of Mamma Mia!, which will be produced by Universal in partnership with Playtone and Littlestar.
Variety reports that Streep will play the role of single mother Donna Sheridan, the part created on Broadway by Louise Pitre. Producers include Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman; executive producers are Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson as well as ABBA songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Phyllida Lloyd, who directed both the London and Broadway mountings of the international hit musical, will make her feature-film directing debut on "Mamma Mia!," which will begin shooting this summer in both Greece and London. The screenplay has been penned by Catherine Johnson, who wrote the book for the musical.
Producer Craymer told the industry paper, "[Meryl Streep] was always at the top of our wish list, and she encapsulates the spirit and energy and has the powerhouse qualities that character requires."
Although Streep has previously sung in the films "Postcards From the Edge" and "A Prairie Home Companion," "Mamma Mia!" would be her first movie musical.
Mamma Mia! employs the hit songs of famed pop group ABBA to tell the story of Sophie Sheridan, a young girl who hopes to discover the identity of her father. On the eve of her wedding, she brings three men from her mother Donna's past back to the Greek island they visited over two decades ago.
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1) A movie of Mamma Mia is against God's plan
2) Meryl Streep has made some whacked-out film choices since menopause.
