Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon is in talks to play Peggy Lee in the big screen adaptation with triple threat talent, Nora Ephron writing and directing. Reese secured the rights to her life story from the late singer’s daughter, and has naturally brought on producer Marc Platt and Elizabeth Gabler’s Fox 2000, with whom she had her ‘Walk the Line’ success. The Lee pic will explore the professional and personal life of the legendary performer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. Ephron, best known for her successful romantic comedies has been nominated numerous times for an Oscar and her last picture Julie & Julia, garnered a nomination for Meryl Streep. Reese already looks like a young Peggy Lee.