Reese Witherspoon has signed on to a new project and is set to star in the dark supernatural thriller COLD.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Witherspoon will also be on producing duties after DÉJÀ VU’s Bill Marsilii pitched the idea and appears likely to take on writing duties for the project, storyline details for which have not been revealed.
Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard films banner, which also brought smash hit David Fincher- directed thriller GONE GIRL to the big screen, has emerged as one of the most prolific production companies in Hollywood. In May alone the firm optioned Second Life, the new thriller novel from BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP’s SJ Watson, and picked up the astronaut drama PALE BLUE DOT, which Witherspoon will also star in.
The company has also dipped into the world of the small screen with the HBO miniseries BIG LITTLE LIES. It is a dark comedy starring Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman as mothers whose lives begin to fall apart.
The actress can currently be seen on the big screen in HOT PURSUIT, which was not that much of a hit with the critics, but she will next star as Tinker Bell in the Disney live action comedy TINK, based on the popular fairy introduced by JM Barrie in his Peter Pan stories, and as pioneering elite woman soldier 1st Lieutenant Ashley White in the military biopic ASHLEY’S WAR.
