Javier Bardem is discussing with Columbia Pictures to star in Eat, Pray, Love, the Ryan Murphy-directed adaptation of the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir.

Bardem signs on with Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins in the cast.

As far as Variety reports, Roberts plays the author, and Bardem will play Felipe, the man Gilbert meets and falls in love with on the final leg of a journey of self-discovery that began with the end of her marriage.

Richard Jenkins plays a Texan whom the heroine befriends at an Indian ashram.