All Things ‘Nice’ for Fox Searchlight

Looks like Fox Searchlight and Reese Witherspoon are taking Spring cleaning to heart – they have dusted off a decade’s worth of inactivity on the book-to-screen translation of author Jen Sacks‘ Nice. Variety reports that the project which was originally set up by Warner in 98′ and had Helen Hunt on board, will now see television writer Ben Queen give the project a better outlook. Witherspoon’s name gets thrown around a lot as a potential player, so don’t bank on her taking the principle lead, but for the time being she is down to produce alongside Keri Selig, Gayla Nethercott and Jennifer Simpson.

The protag is a magazine writer who accidentally kills her boyfriend. She finds a way to get rid of the body and discovers that killing boyfriends is easier than breaking up with them. Sounds like a cute version of American Psycho.