EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hey Sunshine are getting nearer to discovering the subsequent Elle Woods to steer its upcoming Legally Blonde prequel sequence.
Lexi Minetree (The Murdaugh Murders) and Madison Wolfe (True Detective, Mayfair Witches) have examined for the function, Deadline has realized. In response to inside sources, no resolution has been made but; one is anticipated quickly. Reps for Amazon MGM Studios and Hey Sunshine declined to remark for this story.
The 2 have emerged as finalists in an in depth casting course of that noticed dozens of younger actresses audition for the doubtless star-making half that famously catapulted Witherspoon into the ranks of Hollywood’s A-list after she portrayed the character as an grownup within the hit romantic comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its sequel Legally Blonde 2: Pink, White & Blonde (2003).
Witherspoon opened up in regards to the auditioning course of, which has been occurring for about three months, throughout a current go to to The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon saying, she’s checked out “so many tapes” they usually’ve been “so enjoyable to observe.” She was impressed to get a prequel going after watching Netflix’s Wednesday, hoping to point out Elle’s life earlier than school and legislation faculty.
“I simply love all of them a lot they usually’re doing such a superb job,” she mentioned of the younger actresses auditioning.
Each Wolfe and Minetree are up-and-coming actresses who share bodily similarities with Witherspoon. Wolfe’s credit embody AMC’s Mayfair Witches, HBO’s True Detective and the CBS sequence Zoo; and on movie The Conjuring 2, The Marketing campaign and Trafficked. Minetree has appeared in The Murdaugh Murders, varied brief movies, the Lifetime TV film My Amish Double Life, and Regulation & Order: SVU.
Created by Laura Kittrell (Excessive College, Insecure), who will function showrunner, the prequel sequence follows Elle Woods in highschool as we study in regards to the life experiences that formed her into the enduring younger girl we got here to know and love within the first Legally Blonde movie. The sequence is ready years earlier than the occasions within the first film, which kicked off as Elle Woods (Witherspoon) graduated from school and headed to Harvard Regulation to pursue a authorized profession.
Kittrell government produces with Hey Sunshine’s Witherspoon, Lauren Neustadter and Lauren Kisilevsky as effectively the Legally Blonde film franchise producer Marc Platt. Elle is produced by Hey Sunshine and Amazon MGM Studios.
