Reese Witherspoon is ready to reunite with director Alexander Payne for an Election sequel.
The movie will likely be an adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win, his 2022 novel that follows the character of Tracy Flick as she battles to turn out to be the principal of a suburban highschool. “She hasn’t fulfilled her goals of a political profession,” Perrotta mentioned of Tracy within the e-book. “And she or he’s trying again and beginning to understand that she wasn’t as extraordinary a person as she believed. That she was a form of consultant lady slightly than a novel superhero.”
Perrotta’s novel was launched to acclaim this June with the New York Instances’s Molly Younger calling it “exquisitely drawn”.
Tracy Flick Can’t Win will likely be launched on streaming platform Paramount+. Witherspoon may even produce whereas Payne will once more write the screenplay with Jim Taylor.
The 1999 unique was a breakout success, netting Payne and Taylor an Oscar nomination for greatest tailored screenplay and Witherspoon a Golden Globe nod for greatest actress in a musical or comedy. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw known as it “a devastatingly intelligent and humorous black comedy”.
Witherspoon has since gone on to win an Oscar for her function in Stroll the Line and has most lately been seen in Apple TV’s drama collection The Morning Present. She is going to subsequent lead Netflix romantic comedy Your Place or Mine alongside Ashton Kutcher and Legally Blonde 3, co-written by Mindy Kaling.
In a USA Immediately interview from this summer time, Witherspoon teased that out of the “dozen tasks in numerous phases of improvement” she is dealing with, there was one which she “can’t actually discuss”. She mentioned she can be “reprising a personality I performed a very long time in the past”.
Payne’s final movie was 2017’s high-concept satire Downsizing starring Matt Damon. The movie obtained blended opinions and was a business misfire. His subsequent movie The Holdovers stars Paul Giamatti was lately bought by Focus Options for a worldwide deal that’s estimated to be value $30m and is predicted to be launched in 2023.
Tracy Flick Can’t Win is one in all many tasks heading to Paramount’s streaming community based mostly on pre-existing studio property. Subsequent yr sees a TV remake of Deadly Attraction starring Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan and a Grease prequel.