Joe Carnahan ("Narc", "Smokin' Aces") is in talks to direct a remake of the 1965 thriller "Bunny Lake is Missing" which Reese Witherspoon is being eyed to star in reports Variety.
Otto Preminger directed the original which surrounds the events that occur after a woman reports that her daughter Bunny Lake has gone missing. When police find no evidence that she even existed, they being to question the woman's sanity.
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and "Quills" scribe Doug Wright is working on a rewrite of his own script with Carnahan. Spyglass Entertainment will finance and Sony Pictures will distribute.
Carnahan hopes to helm "Bunny Lake Is Missing" before he directs George Clooney in "White Jazz" which goes into production early 2008.
