Gyllenhaal, Witherspoon in new “Rendition”

Jake Gyllenhaal
and Reese Witherspoon
will star in New Line Cinema’s Rendition, a political thriller based in the Middle East. Bill Todman will serve as executive producer over Kelley Sane’s script, with cameras rolling in mid-November. Gavin Hood of Tsotsi fame will direct.

The complex storyline centers around Gyllenhaal, an CIA analyst whose assignment is the overseeing of an interrogation of a suspected terrorist. His life begins to unravel when he questions the validity of his assignment.

The film will be director Hood’s first since his aforementioned Tsotsi won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2006. It will also be Hood’s first film in the Hollywood system. More interestingly, did you know that Reese Witherspoon is in talks to do a remake of of Bunny Lake is Missing? You would have thought Hollywood learned its lesson after The Night Listener, The Forgotten, Freedomland, etc etc etc, movies about kids disappearing but did they disappear? The original Bunny Lake is great though. Watch it.