Jennifer Aniston to Sing Behind Bars

Thursday August 06, 2009 07:20 AM EDT

Jennifer Aniston to Sing Behind Bars

Jennifer Aniston

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Jennifer Aniston is going to jail – for her next movie role.

In fact, Aniston, 40, will both star in and produce Goree Girls, based on the real-life story of a 1940's Texas country band comprised of eight female prisoners, Variety reports.

Due to start shooting in January withGrey Gardens Emmy-nominated Michael Sucsy as director, Goree Girls is based on a 2003 Texas Monthly story by Skip Hollandsworth, titled O Sister, Where Art Thou?

The girls – "the Dixie Chicks of their day," according to Hollandsworth – became favorites on the radio and were eventually pardoned before fading from view.
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