Sophisticated thesps love scripts adapted from plays – theꩵre’s that added air of gravitas that something coming from the staꦬge has about it. Well, unless someone adapts Bat Boy.
Still, Meryl Streep – already committed to star in Mamma Mia! – clearly l🅘ikes movies born on the stage, as she’s just agreed to the lea💛d in Doubt, which Miramax will build from John Patrick Shanley’s play.
Set in a New York Catholic school in the ’60s, Doubt finds a strict nun concerned that one of her charges is being abused by a popular, charis♍matic priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman, digging int꧒o proven his ability to play dubious characters).
Shanley has already adapted his own script and plans to sit in the director’s folding chair. But he’ll have to wait a while to make the movie as his stars both have plenty of films on their schedules – Doubt starts shooting this December 🗹in New York.
