Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, & Timothee Chalamet in Talks to Star in Greta Gerwig's LITTLE WOMEN Remake

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Greta Gerwig will direct the feature adaptation of the Mary Louise Alcott classic Little Women for Sony's Columbia label. Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) and Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) are in talks to star, along with Meryl Streep, Emma Stone and Florence Pugh.

Little Women follows teenaged sisters Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg and their mother in Civil War era Massachusetts as they navigate their new town, true love, and their first holiday without their father, a traveling minister.

Streep will be playing family matriarch, Marmee, while Ronan would play the protagonist Jo and Stone would play older sister Meg. Chalamet would play Laurie Laurence, Jo's love intertest.

Gerwig has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg(2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). She has also performed in Damsels in Distress (2011), To ROME with Love (2012), Jackie (2016), and 20th Century Women (2016), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2017, Gerwig wrote and made her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film Lady Bird, which won the award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at the 75th Golden Globe Awards. For her work on Lady Bird, Gerwig also received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, as well as Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Best Screenplay; Gerwig became the fifth woman in history to be nominated in the Best Director category at the Oscars.

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