Reese's Next Piece
Reese Witherspoon isn't shy about hopping from one project to the next.
Having recently wrapped Vanity Fair for Focus Features, and soon to deliver child number two with hubby Ryan Phillippe, the flaxen ingénue has just signed on to star in Columbia Pictures' Bunny Lake is Missing, Variety reports.
The film is a remake of the 1965 psychological thriller starring Laurence Olivier and Carol Lynley.
Witherspoon will reprise Lynley's role as Ann Lake, a mother who drops her four-year-old daughter, Bunny, off at preschool, and returns to find her missing. When she reports the child's disappearance, police question whether Bunny ever existed.
The original film was a critic's darling, though director Otto Preminger thought of Bunny Lake as his "small" and "unsuccessful" project, when compared to his buzz-generators such as 1944's Laura, and 1950's Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Based on a mystery novel by Evelyn Piper (a pseudonym for writer Marryam Modell), Bunny Lake is rarely seen these days, as very few copies were ever released on VHS and DVD. Film aficionados troll for the existing copies on sites such as eBay.
Witherspoon's Type A Films will produce the updated version; Mark Gordon will coproduce.
That's not all on the Legally Blonde thesp's slate--she's also set to play June Carter in the upcoming Fox 2000 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.
She'll also star in Type A Films' Mother to Mother, a true-life tale of a Stanford student murdered in 1993 while on a Fulbright scholarship to South Africa.
Witherspoon has become one of Hollywood's highest-paid leading ladies in recent years, pulling in an estimated $15 million to star in 2003's Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.
Her 2002 romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama debuted with $35.6 million, setting a record for a September opening.





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