Reese Witherspoon will star in the dark supernatural thriller Cold, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Witherspoon, still on something of a high following her Oscar-nomination for true life drama Wild earlier this year, is also producing the film. 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 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 awards season-friendly astronaut drama Pale Blue Dot for Witherspoon to star in. It is also behind the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, a forthcoming dark comedy starring Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman as mothers whose lives begin to fall apart.
The Oscar-winning actor has continued her renaissance despite the box office and critical failure of May’s Hot Pursuit, her debut foray into female buddy comedy territory. She will also star as Tinker Bell in the Disney live action comedy Tink, based on the enduringly 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.
