Gone Girl Casting News : Reese Witherspoon is Gone!

According to Deadline Hollywood things are heating up again in the journey from Gone Girl the book, written by Gillian Flynn, to Gone Girl the movie, directed by David Fincher. The big news is that Reese herself, will no longer star as Amy Dunne, the wife who goes missing. I'm sure Flynn is disappointed as she's a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon's - (I shared an interview here).  Flynn has written the first draft of the screenplay already and I can't help but wonder if she'd made tweaks with Reese in mind. In any case, Witherspoon isn't out of the picture completely; her company, Pacific Standard will still produce.

The really interesting thing though is who will play Amy now? Fincher probably has Rooney Mara on his personal short list but she's technically too young. Could definitely pull off the (spoiler alert)

psycho stuff though. Jessica Chastain would be high on my personal short list; she's the right age and having seen her in range of diverse roles from the outsider desperate to fit in in The Help, the model of natural grace in The Tree of Life, the Mossad agent in The Debt and an American agent in Zero Dark Thirty, I know she's right for the part. I didn't see Chastain in Mama but it's almost like she's right for any part, within age and gender range. Chastain possesses a special mind body meld with her characters, allowing her real self to disappear within as these other women take over. It's the same kind of complete surrender that makes Mery Streep one of world's finest actresses. That and an abundance of empathy.


Now that Reese Witherspoon is out of the picture, who do you see as Amy?

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