Viola Davis and Julia Roberts to team with 'La La Land' producer for 'Small Great Things'

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By Darian Scalamoni

            It seems that there is an epic collaboration in the works in Hollywood, something that one would call a dream collaboration. Deadline is reporting that recent Oscar-nominee Viola Davis will team with an Oscar-winner, Julia Roberts for the movie adaptation of the popular novel, Small Great Things. Not only that, but Marc Platt, who produced the Best Picture frontrunner, La La Land is also attached to produce this film.

            Small Great Things follows Ruth, a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of the newborn children at a Connecticut hospital but is told not to touch the baby of a couple who are white supremacists. When the baby dies while Ruth is the only one present in the room, she is taken to court by the couple. The author of the book Jodi Picoult has already had many of her works on both television and in theaters. Some of those include My Sister’s Keeper which was released in 2009 and starred Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin, while another one of her novels, Sing You Home is set up with producers Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman and is in development.

            Davis was seen most recently for her role in Fences for which she was just nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and will be seen next in Steve McQueen’s next feature, Widows. Roberts was only in two films last year, both deemed critically ad failures, in Jodie Foster’s Money Monster and Garry Marshall’s last film before his passing, Mother’s Day. She’ll be seen this year in Wonder, based on the award-winning children’s novel to which she’ll play the mother of the lead character Auggie, played by Jacob Tremblay. That film will be released on April 7^th.