Universal Pictures has acquired Don Winston's supernatural spec script, OUR FAMILY TROUBLES, and will develop the drama under a new name as a starring vehicle for Reese Witherspoon, Variety reported.
Witherspoon and her Type A Films partner Jennifer Simpson are set to produce it. Universal svp Holly Bario will oversee the film.
Witherspoon plays a first-time mother so plagued by unexplained phenomena that she doubts her own sanity. When she returns to her Tennessee home, she fixates on the legend of the Bell Witch and becomes convinced the evil spirit is trying to harm her son.
Type A Films, based at the Universal lot, earned its first credit on LEGALLY BLONDE 2, is in pre-production on modern-day fairy tale PENELOPE and also is developing thriller THE RECKONING.
