Reese Witherspoon, soon to be seen opposite Matthew McConaughey in Mud before heading to Devil’s Knot with Colin Firth, is in talks to star opposite Keanu Reeves in sci-fi Passengers. The film is set in the distant future on board a long-range exploration spaceship with the mission of seeking out other worlds for humans to live. But when one of the men on board is awakened accidentally from cryo-sleep hundreds of years before he is supposed to be he faces a lonely existence with no one else set to be woken in his lifetime. So he takes matters into his own hands and to wake a female companion, the Witherspoon role if she signs. The film is set to be directed by Game Of Thrones director Brian Kirk from a script by original Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts. Witherspoon is currently filming The Good Life and is linked to star in Wish List after that. Source – The Hollywood Reporter
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