Reese Witherspoon signs up for Election 2

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Alexander Payne returns to helm a sequel to the brilliant 1999 comedy Election, and Reese Witherspoon is set to return.

Reese Witherspoon has signed up to reprise her role as Tracy Flick in a sequel to one of her best-ever films, Election. Whatā€™s more, Alexander Payne, the director of the 1999 cult comedy is returning to direct.

The film will be based on Tom Perrotta’s recently published novel, Tracey Flick Canā€™t Win, a sequel to his 1998 novel upon which the original Election was based. The movie will be coming to Paramount+, according to reports, so a cinema run is probably out of the question.

Still, everything seems to be in place for a successful return to an acidic comedy character in the form of Witherspoonā€™s Tracy Flick. In the recently-published novel, Tracy Flick has not entered into a successful career in politics as she memorably intended to in the first film. Instead, sheā€™s struggling with adulthood and working as a teacher, much like her nemesis who was played by Matthew Broderick in the 1999 film.

Weā€™re not sure where this leaves Legally Blonde 3, a project for which details continue to prove elusive. As far as we know there is still no director in place for that project so itā€™s possible that Tracy Flick Canā€™t Win may even leapfrog the announced Legally Blonde threequel, which seems to have been in development for a very long time now. Weā€™ll bring you more on either of these projects as we hear it.

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