‘Bunny Lake’ Not Missing Carnahan Lead

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Hot on the heels of his ensemble pic Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan has entered into talks to bring back the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing. Carnahan is said to be working with Spyglass Entertainment and producer Mark Gordon to renew the Otto Preminger film with the style and zing that punctuates all of the director’s works.

The project is said to be racing through pre-production as Carnahan looks to helm the film before starting White Jazz with George Clooney in 2008. The pic covers events that occur following a woman’s report of the disappearance of her 4-year old daughter Bunny Lake. Investigators find no evidence that she ever even existed and begin to question the sanity of the mother. Carnahan is working the pen with the Pulitzer Prize playwright of “I Am My Own Wife”, Doug Wright who wrote the original screenplay based on the Marryam Modell novel. The project has been secured since 2003 when Spyglass joined with Gordon to set the film as a potential star vehicle for Reese Witherspoon , whose Type A Films will also share in the production credits. Columbia Pictures is in talks to handle domestic distribution.

Producer Gordon has worked with Carnahan before when they teamed up for the adaptation of the Marc Bowden non-fiction book Killing Pablo also set to begin in 2007. Witherspoon, riding her recent Oscar wave, is currently starring with fellow Academy alums Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep in the Gavin Hood helmed film Rendition for New Line Cinemas.