Jennifer Aniston Picks Up Holler

With teenage racial tensions drama

Jennifer Aniston Picks Up Holler

by Emily Phillips |
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Jennifer Aniston has got her producer hat on once again as she teams up with Screen Gems to pick up the script for Holler, about the continuing racial segregation in America's Deep South.

The film - which was originally set to be called Mutt - was written by Oscar-nominated **Murderball **director Dana Adam Shapiro taken from real events which were also dissected in the HBO documentary Prom Night In Mississippi.

It will follow the mixed race teen who moves to Mississippi with his white mother - who could in theory be played by Aniston - and falls in love with a white girl. When he realises that they cannot be eachother's date to the prom because it is racially segregated, he is inspired to put the school to rights and fight to change the values of the whole town.

Aniston is still fairly new to producing films of her own - recently overseeing her two latest comedies **Management **and **The Baster **- having split from Plan B Entertainment, the production company she set up with ex-husband Brad Pitt and Paramount CEO Brad Grey, following their divorce in 2006.

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