As reported in Variety, Recent Oscar nominee and eternal character actor Richard Jenkins (The Visitor, Step Brothers) has signed up for the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love, alongside Julia Roberts (Duplicity). The film will be directed by Ryan Murphy, the sick mind behind Nip/Tuck whose previous feature film work includes the disappointing Running With Scissors, another book adaptation. Eat, Pray, Love will be funded by Columbia Pictures.
Gilbert’s book is a personal account “about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce,” as it reads on Gilbert’s Web site. The book is something of a self-help phenomenon told from a first-person experiences, which is interesting and should be interesting to see adapted on screen. Roberts will play the Gilbert character. The actress has done well for herself playing real-life people before, i.e. Erin Brokovich.
And while I’m not Roberts’ biggest fan, after the very clever work she did in Duplicity I cannot wait to see what she does next. Adding the always-reliable Jenkins only excites me more. That man can do it all. He is set to “play a Texan who Roberts’ character befriends at an Indian ashram,” according to the Variety report.
What do you think about this movie? Are you excited for Jenkins in it? Roberts?