Reese Witherspoon Stars in "Wild"

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EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Marc Vallée, who helmed the upcoming Matthew McConaughey-starrer Dallas Buyers Club, has been set by Fox Searchlight to helm Wild. Reese Witherspoon already is set to star in the Nick Hornby-scripted adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir. Witherspoon and her Pacific Standard partner Bruna Papandrea are producing with River Road Entertainment’s Bill Pohlad. Vallee’s producing partner, Nathan Ross, will be exec producer.

Witherspoon will play Strayed, who in the book recounted how the twin tragedies of her marriage cratering and her mother dying plunged her into a long spiral of reckless and destructive behavior. At the end of her rope, she made a rash decision: With no experience, she hiked more than 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. She experienced as much terror as pleasure in navigating the rough terrain but regained her mojo in the process. Searchlight execs Claudia Lewis and David Greenbaum are overseeing. Vallee is repped by Ross and attorney David Weber.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/dal...marc-vallee-goes-wild-with-reese-witherspoon/

 

[HBarnill]

One of the worst actresses right now. And that Oscar was undeserved. And that arrest and aftermath showed that she's a horrible human being.

 

[Asr]

I saw this movie a couple days ago.

I really didn't know anything about it going in, pretty much the reason I saw it was due to awards buzz for Witherspoon's performance, along with the fact that the trailers showed a lot of natural scenery (I love the outdoors and am an avid hiker).

So it wasn't until after I saw the movie that I learned it's basically a biopic, and some of the criticisms I had are thus invalid (primarily that Witherspoon's character makes a lot of dumb decisions, and the film didn't show much in the way of truly outstanding scenic shots especially once her character got to the Sierra mountains, and Oregon, which have some of the most beautiful landscape in the country).

I guess if you go in expecting a self-reflective biopic about the main character facing her inner demons it's a pretty good film, but it wasn't really my cup of tea. And while Witherspoon was good, I also thought she wasn't really all that amazing either, and not really that deserving of an Oscar. I can think of plenty of other actresses who could easily pull off the same role, or even do it better. It was still some of Witherspoon's best acting though, just not truly standout in a year full of other great female performances.

There were a ton of psycho creeps in the movie who shamelessly hit on Witherspoon's character and made her either nervous or even outright afraid which was just demoralizing for me as a guy and made me lose hope that there are any women-respecting men left in American society today.

And for the record, I don't think I'd ever seen Witherspoon topless on film before until Wild. Multiple times. And doing semi-graphic sex scenes (!). I thought she used to be one of those "good-girl" actresses who would never do nudity, let alone sex scenes, but I guess she had a change of mind recently....

 

[tzarinna]

I'd like to check it out. It reminded of Into the Wild. So, I guess this is the female version.