Former "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston will executive produce and potentially star in the period musical "Goree Girls," media reported Thursday. (File Photo)

    BEIJING, Jun 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Former "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston will executive produce and potentially star in the period musical "Goree Girls," media reported Thursday.

    "Goree Girls" is based on the true story of 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.

    At their peak, the Goree Girls, as they were popularly known, drew a weekly audience of 7 million listeners to their live radio show broadcast every Wednesday evening on a Fort Worth station. The women were flooded with fan mail, flowers, candy and even marriage proposals from their male admirers.

    Eventually, however, all of the group's members were pardoned, and the Goree Girls quickly faded into obscurity.

    The idea for the film was born out of a 2003 Texas Monthly feature by Skip Hollandsworth titled "O Sister, Where Art Thou?"

    Aniston and her producing partner, Kristin Hahn, hired Margaret Nagle (HBO's "Warm Springs") to adapt the screenplay. DreamWorks, Aniston and Hahn have sent the script out in search of a director with no scheduled production start to date.

    (Agencies)