Tracy had an affair or a illicit relationship or an abusive relationship, depending upon how you want to - what language you want to apply, with a high school teacher in "Election." So that was a little part of it.īut the main part of it, I think, was the #MeToo movement happened, and I was reading a lot of stories about women like Tracy. And it seemed unfair for Tracy to be vilified for her ambition. You know, I think to accomplish anything in life, you have to believe that you can do it. You know, some part of me really sympathized with her drive and her ambition. And I didn't always love that idea of Tracy. And I think she was - became a bit of a stereotype of an unpleasantly ambitious woman who alienated the people around her, primarily the men around her. PFEIFFER: And we should note here, by the way, for people who haven't seen it, she was kind of, in high school, this sort of officious, driven overachiever, supremely self-confident in kind of an off-putting way.
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One is that Tracy Flick has become a kind of iconic figure in American culture sort of separate from my book, I think because of Reese Witherspoon's wonderful performance in the movie "Election." And so for all these years since I wrote the book and the movie came out, I've been hearing female politicians being compared to Tracy, you know, Hillary Clinton foremost among them. PERROTTA: Well, you know, I think there are a couple reasons. Tom, this book is basically a sequel, but it's coming out about 25 years after you wrote the first book. Tom Perrotta is with us to talk about his latest book. She's back in high school, working as assistant principal. But in Perrotta's new novel, "Tracy Flick Can't Win," we meet Flick in middle age. And whether you met her through the movie starring Reese Witherspoon or the book written by Tom Perrotta, both called "Election," she seemed like she might actually make it to the White House as she headed off to Georgetown University. She was going to be president of the United States. Set roughly 25 years in the future, the sequel sees a middle-aged Flick not living out her political dreams, but languishing as assistant principal at a suburban New Jersey high school.Tracy Flick had big plans in high school.
The movie is being primed for release on Paramount+.īack in July, Witherspoon cryptically alluded to the Election sequel, telling USA Today that there was a project she “can’t really talk about” where she’s “reprising a character I played a long time ago.” In the first film, Tracy is plotting to win the vote for student body president despite a dismal approval rating from her fellow classmates and tampering by Matthew Broderick’s disgruntled social studies teacher. Witherspoon has also signed on to produce alongside Lauren Neustadter under her Hello Sunshine shingle. Perrotta, who adapted the original film from his novel, will serve as executive producer and pen the follow-up alongside frequent Payne collaborator Jim Taylor.
More than 20 years after littering the high school hallways with “Pick Flick” propaganda, Reese Witherspoon is reprising her role as Type-A student body presidential hopeful Tracy Flick, according to multiple outlets.Ī sequel to 1999’s Election, adapted from Tom Perrotta’s June 2022 novel Tracy Flick Can’t Win, is in the works with writer-director Alexander Payne returning to the helm.
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