Kidman Reunites with Hours Director

Nicole Kidman is, without a doubt, one of the great screen actresses of her generation.

But since winning an Oscar for The Hours, she's appeared in several films not worthy of her talents, including Bewitched and The Invasion.

So it's good news that she's reuniting with The Hours' gay director, Stephen Daldry, for a film that will co-star Ralph Fiennes.

The Reader, based on the international best-seller, deals with a 15-year-old German boy who has an obsessive love affair with an older woman during World War II, only to find out after the war's end that she is the defendant in a Nazi war crimes trial and is quite likely guilty of an unspeakable offense.

No word yet on when The Reader goes before the cameras, but it's all but guaranteed an eventual Oscar marketing campaign.