Reese Witherspoon to star in Disney’s live-action Tinker Bell film

NEW YORK — Reese Witherspoon is attached to star in Disney’s Tink, a live-action film based on the Peter Pan character Tinker Bell.

Witherspoon will also produce the pic with her producing partner Bruna Papandrea through their Pacific Standard banner. Victoria Strouse is penning the script.

Plot details are unknown other than that the film is set in the world of the classic novel with Tinker Bell in full focus. The project is still in development, and there is no timeline for it to go into production.

It’s yet another project based on a classic Disney animated pic that is being given the live-action treatment. Disney has already seen live-action versions of Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty story Maleficent and Cinderella become box office hits, and the studio sees this as a formula that works as well for a comicbook pic.

The studio has Beauty and the Beast in production and is also developing live-action versions of Dumbo and Winnie the Pooh.

Witherspoon was most recently seen in New Line’s Hot Pursuit and recently joined drama Pale Blue Dot at Fox Searchlight.

She is repped by Creative Artists Agency and LBI Entertainment. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news. VARIETY.COM/ REUTERS