Ryan Seacrest makes producing debut with Reese Witherspoon

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 12:11 pm , filed under Celebrities by George

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Ryan Seacrest is producing his first film with co-producer Reese Witherspoon. The film is reportedly a romantic comedy but there is no title given to the project. The movie will be produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Witherspoon’s Type A Films in association with Universal. However, the story will be written by Grey’ Anatomy scribe Krista Vernoff.

Already, Ryan Seacrest is a major producer for Universal parent’s television division for which he produces Kardashian franchise and serves as host and managing editor of E! News. The American Idol host, Ryan has noted that his desire to venture into the film world as well as the scripted TV world when profiled by media in April. The latter became a reality when he sold a small-screen adaptation of ‘The Nanny Diaries’ with Harvey Weinstein into development at ABC in August.

However, Witherspoon is garnering buzz for her upcoming role in 20th Century Fox’s This Means War. She juggles relationships with two CIA agents who are played by Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, they will pull out all the stops to battle for her affection. The movie is scheduled for its release on 17th February. The news of their romantic comedy project come mere days after Vernoff had sold a legal drama with a supernatural twist to CBS. However, the project pairs Vernoff and also small credits include Charmed and Private Practice with the producers Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman.

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