Bradley Cooper May Find the Silver Linings Playbook, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this jam-packed Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Reese Witherspoon makes a Wish... Fox has a list of Die Hard 5 directorial candidates, and they kinda rule... Miley Cyrus is attached to a "God-themed comedy"... and more ahead.

· For a modestly-priced drama, The Silver Linings Playbook sure gets a lot of ink. Deadline reports that presumed star Mark Wahlberg was forced to drop out of the David O. Russell-directed adaptation of Matthew Quick's 2008 novel because of scheduling conflicts. Replacing him? None other than Bradley Cooper, who was in talks for the film last year, and is back in them again. Cooper would co-star opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Playbook, with the possibility of Robert De Niro being hired for a role as well. Cooper and De Niro worked together in Limitless, and were supposed to co-star in Honeymoon With Harry before that went belly-up. Smells like a bromance! [Deadline]

· High concept alert: Reese Witherspoon has attached herself to Wish List, a comedy pitch about a 35-year-old woman who starts to see all the wishes she made at 10 come true. (There's a stuck coin and fountain involved, obviously.) "It's Big meets 13 Going on 30, but with Reese!" said someone in Hollywood. [Deadline]

· On Monday, it was reported that Noam Murro was out as director on Die Hard 5 and that Behind Enemy Lines helmer John Moore was a possibility to replace him. Well, Moore still is, but he has company. Per Deadline, the Fox short list of Die Hard 5 directorial candidates numbers four: Joe Cornish, Justin Lin, Nicolas Winding Refn and Moore. Let's just cut Refn off immediately -- unless Fox wants Ryan Gosling to star as John McClane's son, in which case, awesome. [Deadline]

· She's just being Miley. (Pats self on back.) Miley Cyrus will produce and potentially star in a "God-themed comedy" for Paramount. [THR]

· Godspeed to Peter Berg if he thinks that a new Friday Night Lights movie can work -- the series finale was such a perfect bow on the story that anything done to muck with the denouement would border on sacrilege. At the TCA summer press tour for NBC on Monday, Berg said that they are "very serious" about an FNL movie, with 2012 eyed as a start date. [Deadline]

· Summit Entertainment will release the latest "found footage" thriller from Team Paranormal Activity with Ethan Hawke as star. He'll play an author who travels around the country with his family to "gruesome" murder sites and writes books on his findings. During one such expedition, he finds a video that "unveils horrifying clues beyond what caused the original tragedy." Father of the year, this guy. [Deadline]