The iconic country singer inked a development deal with bosses at America's NBC network earlier this year to executive produce a number of stand-alone movies based on her life and music, said the Hollywood Reporter.
During the Television Critics Association summer press tour last evening, Parton, 69, said her 1973 song about a woman confronting a lady who she believes is trying to steal her man, will be turned into a film.
China Beach creator and The West Wing writer-producer John Sacret Young has been tapped to write the screenplay for "Jolene".