Reese Witherspoon is bringing Tracy Flick back to the big screen, Variety reports.

The actor, who gave an iconic performance as the ambitious high-school student in the 1999 film adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel Election, will once again play the character in Tracy Flick Can’t Win, an upcoming movie based on Perrotta’s recently published sequel to the book.

Witherspoon earned a Golden Globe nomination for Election, in which she played a hard-working teenager running for student government president, much to the dismay of a social studies teacher played by Matthew Broderick.

In Tracy Flick Can’t Win, published in June by Scribner, Tracy returns as a high school assistant principal with her eyes on the school’s top job. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “Once again, characters you shouldn’t like at all become strangely sympathetic in Perrotta’s hands.…Nobody told this master of dark comedy there are things you can’t make jokes about. Watch him try.”

The new film is being directed by Alexander Payne, who directed Election as well. Payne is writing the screenplay with Jim Taylor (Sideways, About Schmidt). Witherspoon will produce the film, and Perrotta will serve as an executive producer.

Witherspoon shared news of the upcoming movie on Twitter with a nod to Tracy Flick’s relentless campaigning in Election. “Should I start making some posters? Maybe some cupcakes?” she tweeted.

Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.