Meryl Streep Joins The Giver; Set to Be Awesome for the Trillionth Time

"EXCUSE ME! Meryl Streep could play Batman and be the right choice! She is perfection! Whether she’s divorcing Kramer, whether she’s wearing Prada and don’t get me started on Sophie's Choice!"

Not entirely sure if Modern Family is lampooning the perception of how Meryl Streep can, in fact, play anything or it's just a gag played out for that episode. One look at her filmography over the decades (The fact her career took off near 40 years ago is an accomplishment all its own; let it alone being a woman in a field with such short-term "hot" status as showbiz) proves their point.

Yeah. Streep has range; understatement as that is and it's rare to see her not bring it. Though I'll admit some of her choices the last couple of years felt more like her biting for that third Oscar (A stunt the Academy fell for as she won for The Iron Lady, a piece-of-dreck voters probably didn't watch). Nonetheless, we all still pay attention to what she chooses next. If for no other reason, then we can pencil her in for an Oscar nomination the following spring.

Streep has joined the cast of The Giver, based on the mid 90s science-fiction children's novel by Lois Lowry. Phillip Noyce will direct. Jeff Bridges plays the title character (Hopefully not playing it as Rooster Cogburn for the fourth time) and Brenton Thwaites as the lead.

Not a film I'm particularly looking forward it to. I read it as a kid when it was first published and even me, big a genre nerd as I was growing up (Hence my go-to handle "Film Nerd Jamie") didn't take to it. But this can't be all bad. I mean... its Meryl Streep, right?