Actress Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds will team up to headline Tim Burton’s art drama entitled “Big Eyes”. While Burton is producing through his company Screwed, helmers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will both co-direct the picture that chronicles the lives of artist Margaret Keanes and her husband Walter, who passed off his wife’s work as his own until the two eventually divorced.
Issuing a joint statement, both directors were excited over working with Witherspoon and Reynolds on the coming art drama. “We are ecstatic to have this dream cast for our dream project. Walter is a larger-than-life antihero — charming, funny, dangerous, and a little crazy. Ryan will knock it out of the park. As for Reese, she will be perfect as Margaret — soulful, decent, transforming from vulnerability to learning to fight for herself.”
Set to produce Big Eyes is Lynette Howell and Jamie Patricof. The movie will begin filming this coming spring. In the meantime Witherspoon can be seen in This Means War along with Tom Hardy and Chris Pine, while Ryan Reynolds is set to appear in Daniel Espinosa’s Safe House this coming February opposite Denzel Washington. Will you be checking out Big Eyes with the duo of Reynolds and Witherspoon?
