Jessica Chastain & Colin Farell Get Battle of the Sexes Film ‘Miss Julie’

After breaking out in a big way in 2011, Jessica Chastain continued her string of impressive performances with a second Oscar nomination for her work in Zero Dark Thirty last year. She’s currently on stage starring in a production of a play called The Heiress, but Variety reports that the actress will next star in a film adaptation of a different play, August Strindberg’s battle of the sexes piece Miss Julie. Colin Farrell plays the male lead, and Samantha Morton (John Carter, Cosmopolis) has signed on to co-star. Liv Ullmann – an actress, writer, and director who rose to fame working with Ingmar Bergman – will direct. Set in the late 1800s on the estate of a wealthy Swedish Count, the play follows the Count’s daughter (Chastain) as she escapes her social expectations and spends the night dancing with the servants at their yearly party. She’s drawn to a well-mannered …