If the talks go through, Kidman would team up with Julia Roberts for the first time in the movie.
Billy Ray wrote the script and is directing the movie, which also will star Chiwetel Ejiofor.
The original Spanish-language movie, the best foreign-language Oscar winner in 2010, revolved around the life of a retired attorney, who revisits an unsolved rape and murder case and his unrequited love for his former boss by writing a book.
In the process of writing the book, he ends up unlocking many secrets. The original film was written and directed by Juan Jose Campanella, according to the Hollywood Reporter.