Riding (or, perhaps more accurately walking) high on the two-punch success of Wild and **Gone Girl **(the latter of which she produced), Reese Witherspoon is considering her options for the future. She’s now committed to a reunion with her Election director Alexander Payne for his latest project, **Downsizing.
The long-gestating film sounds like a very different type of challenge for the director, so it makes sense that he’d go with someone he knows how to work with already. And he has Matt Damon set to star in the story of a man low on money who decides that life would be a lot cheaper and easier if he underwent a procedure to shrink himself. Travelling through life as a tiny person, he meets a woman (Witherspoon) and a pint-sized foreigner.
It’s not actually Witherspoon’s first run at this role – she was attached to co-star back in 2009 along with fellow Payne alum Paul Giamatti, before scheduling and financing issues and Payne’s concentration on other projects saw it put back on the shelf. Now, even though he’ll have to wait for his cast to work on other projects, Downsizing looks like it might finally fill our screens. Witherspoon, meanwhile, will be back in cinemas with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice (due January 30) and has a variety of films in development.