two years prior, where she played ambitious high school student Tracy Flick, who runs afoul of her school’s social studies teacher in the midst of an election for school president. The movie was an arthouse hit and an Academy Award nominee, and along with was based on a novel by author Tom Perrotta, and earlier this year Perrotta actually published a sequel:
, which follows Tracy as a middle-aged woman. And now the novel is getting a movie adaptation — with Reese Witherspoon set to reprise her role from Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job.