According to Variety, Reese Witherspoon looks set to star in Pale Blue Dot, an astronaut drama just picked up by Fox Searchlight.

The narrative follows a married astronaut who returns to Earth after a mission and begins an affair with a fellow astronaut. The tone has been described as having shades of Foxcatcher and The Right Stuff, the 1983 drama about the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

It is said to be inspired by a true-life astronaut love triangle in which a female mission…
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