Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are set to join forces again, Deadline reports. Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard production banner and Kidman’s Blossom Films have optioned the film rights to “Truly Madly Guilty,” a best-selling novel by Liane Moriarty published earlier this year.
The pair just collaborated on small-screen adaptation of “Big Little Lies,” another project based on one of Moriarty’s novels. The limited series, helmed by Witherspoon’s “Wild” director Jean-Marc Vallee, wrapped filming in June and is currently in post production.
“Through one fateful event, ‘Truly Madly Guilty’ explores the most fundamental relationships — marriage, sex, parenthood and friendship — and how too often we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late,” writes Deadline. The story unfolds over the course of a weekend, and involves six adults and three kids.
It’s unclear whether Witherspoon and/or Kidman will star in “Truly Madly Guilty,” but that seems likely. Pacific Standard’s Bruna Papandrea and Blossom’s Per Saari will join Witherspoon and Kidman as producers.
No word on a premiere date for “Big Little Lies” just yet. The dark comedy centers on the lives of three dissimilar mothers involved in a murder that takes place during trivia night at an elementary school.
Witherspoon is in talks to star in Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s directorial debut “Home Again.” Kidman will join the cast of Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake” for the second season of the murder mystery.
