Paramount Pictures is reckoning on Reese Witherspoon and Ted Tally.

Witherspoon is in negotiations to star in and produce, through her Type A Films shingle, a feature film adaptation of the supernatural thriller "The Reckoning," which Paramount optioned several months ago. Tally will adapt the book, which hits bookstands next month.

Written by Jeff Long, "The Reckoning" revolves around a female New York Times photojournalist who follows a part-military, part-civilian team to Cambodia to recover the bones of lost soldiers. Long is a veteran climber and traveler in the Himalayas who has worked as a historian, journalist and election supervisor in Bosnia.

Type A president Jennifer Simpson also is producing and Allison Brecker-Shearmur is overseeing the project at the studio.

As she lines up future projects, Witherspoon is attached to star in "Sammy" for Sony Pictures Entertainment and also is attached to star and produce "The Proposal" at Revolution. She is developing "Sports Widow," which David Mirkin is rewriting and will direct for Universal.

Witherspoon, who next appears in Focus Features' "Vanity Fair," is repped by WMA and Management 360.

Tally won an Oscar for adapting 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs." His other credits include "All the Pretty Horses," "Red Dragon" and Baz Luhrmann's untitled Alexander the Great project.

Tally is repped by ICM. The agency also repped Long in the deal.

Borys Kit contributed to this report.