Reese Witherspoon is keeping her eye on projects that interest her, tracking down different material and producing the films she wants to make. She’s now attached to produce and star in **Pale Blue Dot{
Despite its astronaut-heavy plot, don’t go thinking that she’s looking to make the next Gravity. This is a story about a married astronaut who returns from space and kicks off an affair with one of her colleagues. Affected by the experience of spending a long time in space and seeing the Earth from a distance, she falls into a downward spiral, a situation only made worse when her lover strikes up his own affair with a trainee. The story has its grounding in a real-life story, that of former NASA officer Lisa Marie Nowak, who was arrested for attempting to kidnap a romantic rival in 2007.
With a tone that The Hollywood Reporter has heard is a blend of Foxcatcher and The Right Stuff, Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi’s script did attract the interest of the former film’s director, Bennett Miller, but he never actually made a deal. So now Fox Searchlight and Witherspoon’s production team will look for someone else to call the shots. Witherspoon will next be seen here in buddy comedy Hot Pursuit, which arrives on July 31.