Reese Witherspoon, through her production company, was the first to option Cheryl Strayed’s breakaway hit memoir Wild. Author Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) came aboard to write the screenplay, and maybe he did a great job, because now Witherspoon has moved from producer-only to star. There’s no director yet, but the film’s aiming to start production this fall. Witherspoon is also a producer of Gone Girl; will she show up in that one as well?