Reese Witherspoon Leading The Next Big Comedy Series
Reese Witherspoon is producing and starring in All Stars, a fish-out-of-water cheerleading comedy coming to Amazon Prime.
Actress and producer Reese Witherspoon will be acting and producing for a new Prime Video comedy series, All Stars. The series, which landed a two-season contract with Amazon, follows a former cheerleader who convinces a school in coastal England to let her teach cheerleading to a motley crew of inexperienced students. According to Deadline, Witherspoon landed the contract with Amazon after a bidding war between all the major streaming companies.
Reese Witherspoon’s upcoming series is loosely based on the story of Andrea Kulberg, a former University of Texas cheerleader who traveled to the UK in 2000 and began teaching the art of cheerleading to a country that had little knowledge of it. Kulberg helped spread the popularity of cheerleading in the area and started a company called Future Cheer to organize camps and competitions in the country.
The new Reese Witherspoon series seems likely to focus on the fish-out-of-water element of the story. The comedy will be following in the footsteps of the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, about an American college football coach who is hired to coach a British soccer team despite having no experience with the sport.
Reese Witherspoon is the founder of the project’s production company, Hello Sunshine, which is known for focusing on female-driven projects. Before All Stars was greenlit, the company produced the films Lucy in the Sky and Where the Crawdads Sing, along with the 2020 Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere. Witherspoon also co-owns one of Hello Sunshine’s subsidiaries, known as Pacific Standard, which began its life as Type A Films, and is best known for producing both Legally Blonde films and Gone Girl.
All Stars is not the only Prime Video series that Hello Sunshine is set to produce for the streaming platform. The production company will also be creating a 10-episode miniseries called Daisy Jones & The Six, which follows a fictional 1970s rock band from its roots to gaining fame, to eventually splitting up. Based on a novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the story was partly inspired by the author’s love for watching Fleetwood Mac perform on TV. Reese Witherspoon will not appear in the series, but she is listed as an executive producer.
Of course, Reese Witherspoon isn’t only known for her experience as a producer. She’s been appearing in films since 1991, playing a small part in the coming-of-age film The Man in the Moon. She gained more prominence after playing the role of Jennifer in the 1998 film Pleasantville, playing Annette Hargrove in the 1999 romantic drama Cruel Intentions, and Evelyn Williams in American Psycho. She also starred in both Legally Blonde movies produced by Type A Films.
Along with All Stars, Reese Witherspoon is set to appear in the upcoming Legally Blonde 3, which is currently in pre-production. She will also star in Your Place or Mine, set to premiere in 2023, along with the TV series Tiny Trailblazers and an as-yet-untitled comedy film alongside Will Ferrell. She is also producing all four of those projects, along with the upcoming series My Kind of Country, and the film Run, Rose, Run.
