This week brings interesting news of films slated to head to production this fall. You're in luck if you like sports movies, true stories, or if you've been curious about how, "The Green Lantern" will turn out. It's easy to read between the lines in this edition of Script Bits. 

Nora Ephron is in talks to write and direct a Peggy Lee biopic with Reese Witherspoon interested in starring. Ephron is a legend in the screenwriting business, and the writing scene in general, having written newspaper columns and numerous books over the years. Witherspoon was the one to seek out Ephron for the project.

Prolific Hollywood screenwriter Michael Goldberg has just been hired by Warner Bros. to write the sequel to the not-yet-released, “Green Lantern”. Goldberg was hired for a re-write of the first script and the early call for a sequel script shows that Warner Bros. has great faith in the project.

Richard Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth have penned a black comedy titled, “Bernie” with Jack Black set to star. (Linklater and Black worked together on, “School of Rock”.) Hollandsworth wrote the original magazine article for Texas Monthly about a real-life friendship between a wealthy widow and a mortician that lead to bizarre and fatal consequences. Film will lens in Texas this October.

Writer and director Sean McGinly has been hired by Identity Films to adapt, “The Old Man and The Gun” for the big screen. The film is based on an article by David Grann about notorious two-decades long criminal Forrest Tucker, who held up banks at gunpoint for years after escaping prison in 1979. He was only caught in 1999 at the age of 79, mid bank robbery.

Michael A. Critelli’s script, “From The Rough” is set to start shooting this October. The script is the story of the first female coach of an NCAA gold team and will star Taraji P. Henson.

Don Handfield will begin shooting on his own script, “Touchback” this week in Michigan. The film features a man given the chance to return to his glory days as a high school football star before a disastrous injury during a playoff game cut his career short forever. Kurt Russell is set to play the lead football coach.