Julia Roberts to Star in Amazon's LITTLE BEE

According to Deadline, Julia Roberts has come aboard the feature adaptation of Chris Cleave's best-selling novel, Little Bee, which Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First, Boss) is penning. The project is being developed at Amazon Studios.

The human triumph story is a dual narrative about a young Nigerian asylum-seeker named Little Bee and Sarah O' Rourke (Roberts) a British magazine editor, who meet during the oil conflict in the Niger Delta and are reunited in England several years later under mysterious and complex circumstances.

The project will be produced by Roberts under her Red Om Films banner, along with her producing partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill. Gil Netter will also produce.

Back in 2009, it was reported that Nicole Kidman would star in a Little Bee adaption produced by BBC Films and Kidman's Blossom Films.

Roberts became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide. She has won three GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (out of eight nominations) and has been nominated for four Academy Awards for her film acting, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich (2000). Her films have collectively brought box office receipts of over US$2.8 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts. Her most successful films include Mystic Pizza(1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Pretty Woman (1990), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), The Pelican Brief(1993), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), Ocean's Eleven(2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Valentine's Day (2010), Eat Pray Love (2010), Money Monster (2016), and Wonder (2017). Roberts was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performance in the HBO television film THE NORMAL HEART (2014).

Roberts was the highest-paid actress in the world throughout most of the 1990s and in the first half of the 2000s. Her fee for 1990's Pretty Woman was US$300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2007 Roberts's net worth was estimated to be $140 million. She has been named the world's most beautiful woman by People a record five times.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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