Alexander Payne is getting serious about making an Election sequel which might discover the profession of Reese Witherspoon’s Tracy Flick.

Alexander Payne’s Election is a film whose repute appears to be rising an increasing number of annually. With a new Criterion Collection version in shops (and the movie celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary), Payne and the movie’s author, Jim Taylor have not too long ago been exploring a potential sequel. The unique movie was primarily based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, and the sequel could be primarily based on his most up-to-date novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win.

According to a latest interview in Deadline, Payne is significantly contemplating teaming with Payne to adapt the sequel, saying, “There is talk and Jim Taylor and I are conceding that now,” with him including, “If there were to be a sequel to Election, what would that look like?”

The unique movie starred Matthew Broderick as a highschool Social Studies instructor who turns into hellbent on destroying her marketing campaign for scholar physique president at her highschool. While the movie’s ending urged Flick would pursue a political profession, Perrotta’s follow-up novel took a a lot completely different method. In it, Flick is a legislation faculty drop-out who turns into vice principal of her old-fashioned, and she or he turns into hellbent on turning into principal when the place opens up. 

In earlier interviews, Payne stated he would take a unfastened method to adapting the novel. He is desperate to drop the highschool setting and discover a strategy to carry Broderick’s character again into the fold. Reese Witherspoon is already on board to reprise her function. She is additionally producing the potential movie via her Hello Sunshine label with Paramount Plus.

While Payne appears open to the thought, he additionally revealed in his Deadline interview that he’d love to do a western together with his The Holdovers author David Hemingson, saying, “It would be nice to take a kind of realistic-slash-naturalistic approach to a Western and also using landscape. In as much as sense of place is important…part of my interest is having even greater dramatic, archetypical interplay between character and landscape. I think it’s really interesting. Also, I’d like to do a good car chase film.”

A car chase movie directed by Alexander Payne? Sign me up!