Meryl Streep Starring in Diablo Cody's 'Ricky and the Flash'

[Sawyer]

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/m...-diablo-codys-ricky-and-the-flash-1201146233/

Meryl Streep to Star in Diablo Cody’s ‘Ricky and the Flash’
Justin Kroll
Film Reporter
@krolljvar

Meryl Streep is attached to star in the indie dramedy “Ricky and the Flash,” written by Diablo Cody with Jonathan Demme set to direct.

Marc Platt is on board to produce.

Story follows an old fading rockstar, played by Streep, who after years of being estranged from her children, finally tries to reconnect as one of them goes through an ugly divorce.

This package will now be taken out to studios and it shouldn’t take long before the film finds a distributor.

Streep is coming off her Oscar-nominated role as the drunken, angry matriarch Violet Weston in Weinstein’s “August: Osage County,” and this role seems to have similar elements given the story line and Cody’s previous credits, which have always brought an edge to its characters.

The CAA-repped Streep has a busy year ahead of her with Weinstein’s adaptation of “The Giver” and Disney’s “Into the Woods.” She follows that up with “Suffragette” opposite Carey Mulligan, which will bow sometime in 2015.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Oscar nomination for Streep confirmed.

 

[KevanG]

Why not make a new movie starring Ricky Bobby and The Flash? Think DC would go for it?

 

[Octoberist]

Actually I can't wait. But what the heck happened to Cody's directorial debut?

 

[Sawyer]

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[Dave McFly]

I think that it is cool that her real daughter plays her daughter in that who I liked in the tv show Extant

 

[Pink Ranger]

This looks really good, though I'm still not sure I can buy Meryl as an American rock star from the past. I mean, I'm guessing she's basically something like Janis Joplin, Joan Jett or Grace Slick. Can we honestly say Meryl was the best choice for a role like that?

Then again, Meryl could probably play Ultron if she had to, and it would work, so who am I to judge.

 

[OddBob]

But what the heck happened to Cody's directorial debut?

Paradise. It's streaming on Netflix.

 

[Sawyer]

I think that it is cool that her real daughter plays her daughter in that who I liked in the tv show Extant

I think that's her other daughter. Grace is the one on Extant and Mamie is the one in this.

It's cool, but it also draws attention to the fact that the other actors playing her kids (Sebastian Stan) bear no resemblance to her.

 

[Dave McFly]

well I will be damned you are right its the other sister in this not Grace they (the sisters) look so much alike wow.

 

[Octoberist]

Looks good!