Reese Witherspoon is developing the dramatic thriller
The Reckoning with her set to star, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Based on a book by Jeff Long, the story centers on a photojournalist who arrives in Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War.
Ted Tally (
Red Dragon,
The Silence of the Lambs) penned the screenplay, which is out to directors.