Saturday, May 13, 2006
projects
RUMOURED PROJECTS
Reese's name has been attached to tens of different projects in the past few years, both as an actress and producer. She is next to take on Penelope but what is to come after is yet unknown. Below is information on projects that has been mentioned in the press recently and are assumed to be more or less active. If you have further information about the status of these projects, please feel free to contact us.
Our Family Troubles Reese Witherspoon as Unknown ANNOUNCED in 2005 Universal Pictures has acquired Don Winston's script Our Family Troubles and will develop the drama as a starring vehicle for Reese Witherspoon and her Type A Films. Witherspoon and her Type A Films partner Jennifer Simpson will produce. The drama, which will get a new title, casts Witherspoon as a first-time mother so plagued by unexplained phenomena that she doubts her own sanity. When she returns to her Tennessee home, she fixates on the legend of the Bell Witch and becomes convinced the evil spirit is intent on harming her son. U senior veep Holly Bario will oversee the film. Source Variety, December 2005 Links IMDb
The Reckoning Reese Witherspoon as Unknown ANNOUNCED in 2003, 2005 Originally announced in 2003 and brought back to headlines in 2005. Witherspoon is developing the dramatic thriller The Reckoning through her Type A Films as a possible starring vehicle. The story centers on a photojournalist who arrives in Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. The book, written by Jeff Long, was published in 2004. Ted Tally wrote the screenplay, which is currently out to directors. There is a movie I am working on for Paramount called The Reckoning about a New York Times photojournalist that goes to Cambodia to look for MIA soldiers from the Vietnam War. We are trying to get it going now. I have no idea about the logistics yet, Reese said in November 2005. Source Hollywood Reporter, November 2005 Links IMDb
Sports Widow Reese Witherspoon as Unknown ANNOUNCED in 2002, 2004 Originally announced in 2002 and brought back to headlines in 2004. Witherspoon to produce and play the lead. A woman has lost her husband to televised sports events. Reese plays one such wife who decides to take back her life and ends up one-upping her football-obsessed husband by becoming an expert on the sport. Source Hollywood Reporter, April 2004 Links IMDb
Around the World in 80 Dates
Reese Witherspoon as Unknown ANNOUNCED in 2005 Universal Pictures has optioned the film rights to Jennifer Cox's memoir and Jeff Rake has signed on to write the adaptation says. The book is part travel guide and part relationship primer, combining dating realities with romantic settings. A bestseller in England, it tells the story of a British travel writer's attempt to find her soulmate. She sent her profile and her specs for a soulmate to contacts around the world and traveled the globe, going on dates with the top 80 candidates in 16 countries. Reese Witherspoon's Type A production company is producing and she will have first crack to star in the film if the script is to her liking. Source Hollywood Reporter, May 2005 Links IMDb
One for the Money Reese Witherspoon as UnknownANNOUNCED in 2004 Reese Witherspoon's Type A Films shingle is developing Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum mystery novel One for the Money as a possible starring vehicle for Witherspoon at Columbia. Wendy Finerman, who's been developing the project for years, will produce along with Type A. Story concerns a down-on-her-luck native of Trenton, N.J., who convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder -- the same man who broke her heart years before. Col is seeking a writer to adapt the novel. Amy Baer is overseeing for the studio. Source Variety, November 2004 Links IMDb
The Dog Walker Reese Witherspoon as Unknown ANNOUNCED in 2004 Universal Pictures has acquired The Dog Walker, the new novel by former Dell editor-in-chief Leslie Schnur. The film will be adapted by How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' scribes Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Type A Films partners Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Simpson. Since the project is a romantic comedy revolving around a young woman, Witherspoon will get first crack at the title role of a gal who's laid off from her publishing job and fills in for a pal who walks dogs for the Gotham elite. Gig allows her to snoop through their apartments, observe their lives and figure out what she wants to do with hers. Source Variety, July 2004 Links IMDb
The Proposal Reese Witherspoon as Unknown ANNOUNCED in 2004 Pairing up for the first time, Reese Witherspoon has partnered with Revolution Studios to co-produce romantic comedy The Proposal, in which she will star. Project follows a couple as they plan their wedding. Witherspoon will produce the project through her Type A Films production shingle. Company developed the laffer with Nicole Eastman, who will pen the script. Revolution partner Todd Garner will oversee the project as executive producer with Denise Decker. "Reese and I have been looking to find something to work on together for a long time, and we are excited that we finally have that opportunity," Garner said. Source Variety, April 2004 Links IMDb
Bunny Lake Is Missing Reese Witherspoon as Annie Lake ANNOUNCED in 2003 Witherspoon's Type A Films is developing a remake of the 1965 Otto Preminger film which was based on a novel by Evelyn Piper. Reese would play Annie Lake, an American woman who has just moved to England with her four-year-old daughter Bunny. Dropping her daughter off at a new school, Annie leaves Bunny alone to wait for her teacher. When she returns Bunny is missing and nobody seems to remember her. She calls the police to report her missing, but when she looks for a photograph she's shocked to find that all of Bunny's things have suddenly vanished from their apartment. There's no trace of Bunny Lake and the police begin to wonder if she ever really existed. Source IGN, October 2003 Links IMDb
Whiteout Reese Witherspoon as Carrie Stetko ANNOUNCED in 2002 Witherspoon will star in the pic, which Wolfgang Petersen and producer Gail Katz are developing through Petersen's shingle, Radiant Prods. Reese's Type A Films will also produce the pic, though some of the individual producing credits are still being negotiated. Whiteout is the story of a female U.S. marshal living in self-imposed exile in Antarctica. Her quiet life of relative solitude is dramatically changed when she is called upon to investigate the first murder on that continent. Source Variety, November 2002 Links IMDb
Other mentions Manhattan Baby (2004) Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (2003) Mother To Mother (2003)
Reese considered for Dallas (2005) I Dream of Jeannie (2005)
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