In 2008, author Sheila Weller released a booked entitled Girls Like Us. It chronicled the lives of Carole King, Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell and the impact their music made on the ’60s generation. Sony Pictures and Di Bonaventura Pictures are currently looking at bringing Girls Like Us to the big screen, according to Variety. While the project has not received the green light, the article notes that Taylor Swift is under consideration to play the role of Mitchell.
Weller’s Girls Like Us set out to showcase the lives of King, Simon and Mitchell. They are women who, as her publisher Simon & Schuster describes, “dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them – confessors in song, rock superstars and adventurers of heart and soul.” Although Swift has not received an offer to portray Mitchell, one thing in her favour is that she can already sing and play guitar.
Swift has some film experience, having played herself in the Walt Disney Studios production of Hannah Montana: The Movie, alongside Miley Cyrus. Swift can also be heard voicing a character in the Universal Pictures film The Lorax, and she appears on the chart-topping soundtrack to The Hunger Games.
Canadian actress Alison Pill has auditioned for the role of King. Pill is known for her roles in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Goon and Midnight in Paris, to name a few. Her most recent project is for television, as she’ll be acting in the role of Maggie in HBO’s The Newsroom when the series starts on June 24.
There is no word on who has auditioned to play the role of Simon, though we do know John Sayles will be writing the script and Katie Jacobs will be directing. Once the project is approved, it is tentatively scheduled to start production later this year.