Tracey Ullman in Talks to Join INTO THE WOODS Film?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tracey Ullman is the latest actress in negotiations to join Rob Marshall's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical INTO THE WOODS. If cast, Ullman will play Jack's mother.

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The film also recently gained director of photography Dion Beebe, who has previously worked with Marshall on the Oscar-winning Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago and Nine.

Ullman will join stars Emily Blunt (The Baker's Wife), Meryl Streep (as The Witch) and Johnny Depp (as The Wolf) in the project. Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Pine are reportedly still in talks for roles (as Cinderella's Prince and Rapunzel's Prince), as are 2012 Tony Award winner James Corden (as The Baker), SMASH star Megan Hilty (as a Stepsister), and Christine Baranski, who was part of the original reading last October, for the role of Cinderella's evil stepmother.

INTO THE WOODS is heading to London to begin shooting this September. James Lapine, the original book writer of INTO THE WOODS, is reworking the script for the screenplay, while Sondheim has also written new material for the film, including "Rainbows", a duet between the Baker and his Wife, as well as a new song for Streep as the Witch.

Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Into the Woods won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason), in a year dominated by The Phantom of the Opera.

This will be Ullman's first movie since I Could Never Be Your Woman in 2007. Ullman has appeared in the West End in My City and on Broadway in The Big Love. TV credits include: State of the Union, Mumbai Calling, Ally McBeal, Tracey Takes On..., The Tracey Ullman Show, Girls on Top and more. Ullman has also appeared on the big screen in the 2005 TV movie version of Once Upon a Mattress, Small Time Crooks, Panic, Bullets Over Broadway, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and more.