Emmy-winning comedy writer-producer Diane English will make her feature directorial debut on a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film "The Women" reports Production Weekly.
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shopgirl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk -- she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary.
Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Anne Hathaway and Candice Bergan are attached to star in the project scheduled to begin filming mid-March in New York.
