Chastain and Redgrave lead Secret Scripture, to film Ireland June 2014
Jessica Chastain and Vanessa Redgrave have been cast in The Secret Scripture.
The actresses will star as older and younger versions of the same character in the adaptation of Sebastian Barry's novel, reports IFTN.
They will play Roseanne McNulty, a woman who, as a 100-year-old mental patient, sits down to write her biography.
The woman's account differs wildly from the facts surrounding her troubled life.
Zero Dark Thirty star Chastain will next be seen in The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: His and Hers, Liv Ullmann's Miss Julie and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
Redgrave was most recently seen in Lee Daniels' The Butler and will appear in Foxcatcher and the upcoming television drama The Black Box.
The Secret Scripture was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.
My Left Foot's Noel Pearson will produce, with a director yet to be announced.
The Secret Scripture will begin shooting in Sligo and Wicklow next June.