Amy Adams

Amy Adams (Catch Me If You Can) is in negotiations to star opposite Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt," John Patrick Shanley’s screen adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Adams will play the pivotal role of a young nun in the middle of a tense confrontation in which a Bronx Catholic school principal (Streep) accuses a priest (Hoffman) of pedophilia.

Shanley is directing the 1964 period piece and adapting it from his play, which ran in off-Broadway and Broadway productions in New York from 2004-06. Production is tentatively set to begin in December 2007.