Reese Witherspoon to Star in Election Sequel Tracy Flick Can’t Win
Reese Witherspoon is reprising her role as Tracy Flick in Tracy Flick Can’t Win, a sequel to the 1999 comedy Election. Tracy Flick Can’t Win is set to debut on Paramount+, and like Election, it is direction by Alexander Payne. Payne also co-wrote the script with Jim Taylor. Both films are based on the novels by Tom Perrotta. The new movie is already getting good reviews. Molly Young at The New York Times described the follow-up story as “even more piercing than its predecessor” and praised Perrotta’s characters as “exquisitely drawn.” Vox’s Constance Grady calls the movie “a Rorschach test for how we think about women, ambition, and the power dynamics of sex.”
James Gunn Shares Statement About Future of DC Studios
Filmmaker James Gunn has made his first public statement about the future of DC Studios following Gunn and Peter Safran’s takeover of the Warner Bros. Discovery division in October. “We know we are not going to make every single person happy every step of the way, but we can promise everything we do is done in the service of the STORY and in the service of the DC CHARACTERS we know you cherish and we have cherished our whole lives,” Gunn wrote in his Twitter statement. “As for more answers about the future of the DCU, I will sadly have to ask you to wait. We are giving these characters and the stories the time and attention they deserve, and we ourselves still have a lot more questions to ask and answer.” Gunn and Safran are due to present their current plans for the DC Universe across film, television, and gaming next week to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
RuPaul’s Drag Race Essay Collection Wins Oddest Book Title of the Year Award
An essay collection about RuPaul’s Drag Race has won the Bookseller/Diagram prize for the oddest book title of the year. The book, RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race, edited by Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry, won 39% of the public vote for the prize. There is no prize for the winning author or publisher, but the nominator of the winning book gets a “passable bottle of claret.”
2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Announced
The winners of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced, featuring several returning winners and a few landslide hits.