‘A very, very Omaha movie’: Alexander Payne, Reese Witherspoon set to reunite for ‘Election’ sequel - Flatwater Free Press

‘A very, very Omaha movie’: Alexander Payne, Reese Witherspoon set to reunite for ‘Election’ sequel - Flatwater Free Press

Decades after the release of his first feature film, Alexander Payne is preparing for a career first: a sequel.  The Oscar-winning filmmaker from Omaha is in the early stages of a follow-up to his acclaimed 1999 comedy “Election.” And much like the original film, Payne hopes to shoot the sequel — which promises to be “a very, very Omaha movie” — in his home state.  “It becomes personal to me if it can be very much about what contemporary Omaha i…