Reese Witherspoon (
"Walk the Line",
"Mud") is working hard these days. Apart from one film which is to be released this year, one that is currently in post-production and two others in pre-production, she has just signed on to star in and produce Disney's fantasy comedy
"Happily Ever After". Not only that, but she has also begun filming for the drama
"Wild".
"Happily Ever After" is a new spin on the usual fairy tale stories and it
"catches up with a prince and princess about 10 years after they have ridden off into the sunset for their ‘happily ever after.’ The couple discovers that even in fairy tale land, you have to work to keep your relationship and life together." The project began as a pitch for the studio by
Nahnatchka Khan, creator of
"Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23"
Filming on
"Wild" has begun in Oregon this week. The film is directed by
Jean-Marc Vallée (
"Dallas Buyers Club") and Witherspoon stars as a woman who undertakes a 1,100-mile solo hike as a way to recover from the dissolution of her marriage and death of her mother. The script is written by
Nick Hornby (
"High Fidelity") based on
Cheryl Strayed's memoir. The film also stars
Michiel Huisman, W. Earl Brown, Gaby Hoffman and
Kevin Rankin.
Reese Witherspoon can also be seen this year in
Atom Egoyan's biographical drama
"Devil's Knot". In 2014 Witherspoon will appear in the drama
"The Good Lie", the sci-fi adventure
"Passengers" which also stars
Keanu Reeves, and director/writer
Paul Thomas Anderson's crime thriller
"Inherent Vice".
Read the full official press release for
"Wild" after the jump.