New Meryl Streep & Jeff Bridges Movie To Somehow Get Even More Oscar Firepower

Great Hope Springs already had some heavy ammunition in its camp with Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges signed on to play a couple who agree to spend an intense weekend-long counseling session to decide the fate of their 30-year marriage. But now The Wrap is reporting that Mike Nichols, director of such classics as The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has expressed interest in directing the drama, thus bumping its Oscar expectations from Red Hot to the Force of 10,000 Exploding Suns. Still uncast is the role of the therapist who helps Streep and Bridges through their thorny issues. Philip Seymour Hoffman had previously expressed interest, but after the jump, check out my humble suggestion who should jump aboard this Academy Award-baiting freight train.

Mike Nichols directed her in Silkwood, Meryl Streep co-starred with her in the same, and Jeff Bridges has probably gotten baked with her ex-husband Gregg Allman. I think the only woman for the job can be Cher. She's got the Oscar chops, she's hungry for a return to credibility, and I could totally buy her bossing Jeff and Meryl around. C'mon, Mike Nichols! Save Cher from the ignominy of having her most recent film credits read voice of cartoon zoo critter and co-star with Christina Aguilera.

[via The Wrap]