Renee Zellweger, Lifetime Team for Hollywood Period Drama

MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty ImagesRenee Zellweger Lifetime takes a couple of pages from Renee Zellweger's diary. The feminine-skewing cable network has acquired Cinnamon Girl, a sixties drama loosely according to Zellweger's journey from small-town Texas to Hollywood. Produced by Zellweger and Anthony Tambakis (Warrior), Cinnamon Girl will center around four women because they come old throughout the cultural revolution from the late sixties and early seventies in La. The drama will explore Cassie, Lola, Cent and Lou's lives because they achieve a crossroads from the era's political, artistic, social and sexual rebellions. "Renee's passion, clearness of character and deep emotion with this project immediately moved us towards the late '60s/early '70s and produced a resonance around attempting to experience again that energy," Lifetime leader and GM Nancy Dubuc stated inside a statement announcing this news Wednesday. "Cinnamon Girl is a game title changer for the network and is the kind of show you want to deliver." Zellweger and Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) will executive produce, using the Bridget Johnson actress co-writing the storyline alongside Tambakis, who'll pen the script. O'Connor will direct with Danny Bramson (Jerry McGuire) becoming producer and music supervisor. "We are thrilled to become joining up with Nancy Dubuc and Take advantage of Sharenow, who share our enthusiasm and inventive intentions, and that we believe the timing is ideal for Cinnamon Girl to possess found a house at Lifetime throughout this major juncture in the network," Zellweger stated. "We are really searching toward making Cinnamon Girl arrived at existence in their campaign to grow audience anticipation and redefine what it really means to become a Lifetime show." The time drama marks Zellweger's second project with Lifetime. In 2008 she executive created Living Proof, the real story of UCLA's Dr. Dennis Slamon, who assisted develop the cancer of the breast drug Herceptin. Cinnamon also can serve as the most recent inside a lengthy type of high-profile projects for that cabler, which now opened its original movie Five, an anthology of short films going through the impact of cancer of the breast on individuals lives. Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Secrets were one of the company directors participating. The network can also be creating a period drama turning round the Hollywood Reporter founder William Wilkerson with Johnny Depp's shingle Infinitum Nihil attached in addition to a contemporary reboot of Steel Magnolias from Hairspray duo Neil Meron and Craig Zadan. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Renee Zellweger Lifetime