Trio Of Beauties Test For "Gone Girl" Lead

Abbie Cornish, Olivia Wilde and Julianne Hough have reportedly submitted audition tapes for the female lead in the drama "Gone Girl" says Variety. This, after Rosamund Pike had emerged as a frontrunner recently.

Based on author Gillian Flynn's novel, Ben Affleck stars as a husband whose wife disappears during their fifth anniversary - leaving him the prime suspect for her murder.

Flynn wrote the first draft of the adapted script, from which David Fincher's going to direct.

Reese Witherspoon Bruna Papandrea and Leslie Dixon will produce the film.

Production begins this fall. Affleck will complete this film before going to work on his next directorial gig--an adaptation of author Dennis Lehane's latest novel "Live by Night".