Renee is getting back in the saddle, with a full workload after filing for an annulment from Kenny Chesney:

The Oscar winner… is switching gears, signing on to star in Paramount’s remake of the Pang brothers’ Japanese horror flick, The Eye, according to the trades.

The original 2002 frightfest, which centered on a blind woman who regains her vision after a cornea transplant only to wind up seeing ghosts, scored solid reviews… The new version, which will see Zellweger playing a blind girl in a similarly dreadful situation… It’s being directed by Hideo Nakata, the helmer behind the Japanese horror hit, Ringu and its sequel… the Texas-born thesp has also signed on to play famed British children’s author Beatrix Potter in the biopic, Miss Potter.

Potter is the legendary writer behind such popular kids’ tales as Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Jermima Puddleduck and Squirrel Nutkin… And if all goes well, the movie will mark a reunion with her co-star from 2003’s Down with Love, Ewan McGregor, who’s in talks to play Norman, Potter’s publisher and love interest.

That film is slated to begin shooting in March under the direction of Chris Noonan, whose last film was 1995’s Babe.

Zellweger’s is also attached to play Janis Joplin in Piece of My Heart, a biopic of the late singer and will her voice to Jerry Seinfeld’s upcoming animated feature for DreamWorks, Bee Movie.
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Here’s hoping the upcoming workload is not too strenuous and proves to be cathartic.