Jennifer Aniston tunes up for "Girls" musical

LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Aniston will produce and potentially star in a period musical about singing prisoners.

Jennifer Aniston gestures as she accepts the Vanguard Award at the 18th annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Kodak theatre in Hollywood, California April 14, 2007 file photo. [Reuters]

"Goree Girls" revolves around eight women at Texas' Goree Prison during the 1940s who formed one of the first all-female country and western acts in the country and captured the hearts of millions of fans in the process. The project is set up at DreamWorks, which is looking for a director.

Aniston and her producing partner Kristin Hahn optioned Skip Hollandsworth's May 2003 article in Texas Monthly titled "O Sister Where Art Thou," which recounted the story of the women, who eventually were pardoned.

Aniston, a former partner in ex-husband Brad Pitt's Plan B production company, has several projects in development via that relationship, including the upcoming Pitt vehicle "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."