Jennifer Aniston will star in Goree Girls, the true story of an all-female country band in a Texas prison in the 1940s, in the feature directorial debut of Michael Sucsy, who directed, wrote and produced HBO's remake of Grey Gardens, nominated for 17 Emmy awards.

The project will begin production in January, financed by Overnight Prods. Overnight's Rick Schwartz and Aaron Kaufman have joined Aniston and her Echo Films partner Kristin Hahn as producers. Overnight made a deal with DreamWorks to take the picture out of turnaround.

The script by Sucsy with the drafts based on a 2003 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth. His story was about the eight women who formed one of the first all-girl C&W acts in the country, became a public favorite and were eventually pardoned.

Sucsy, who is up for several of the 17 Emmy Award nominations that Grey Gardens earned for HBO, finds himself once again at the center of a female-centric project. "If you connect the dots between these projects, I think they are both survivor stories, about people whose human spirit doesn't give up, and it's musically driven, the way 'Grey Gardens' was," Sucsy told Daily Variety. "There is something about music that invigorates the spirit to keep going, even when you don't have freedom."

Goree Girls will begin production in January.

--Jessica Delli Santi