Sometimes you just find a co-worker or boss that clicks with you. Every project or task you approach, the two of you just seem to gel. This is as true in the movie industry as it is in any profession. Just ask Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese.
Well it looks like Jennifer Lawrence has found her own Scorsese, as the Academy Award winner has signed up for not one, but two new projects with director Gary Ross.
The first will be an adaptation of the classic 1952 John Steinbeck* novel East of Eden. The novel follows two sons who compete for the attention of their farmer father in California. Lawrence would play their cruel mother Cathy Ames. I only ever read Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, but I liked them both so I'll probably check out this novel before I watch the film.
The second project is a film called Burial Rites based on the book by Hannah Kent. Burial Rites follows:
a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. The drama takes place between the murder and the prosecution of the case against a woman who is victimized and powerless against the forces trying to send her to a public execution. Ross will direct and Lawrence will play the protagonist in a tale as bleak as her Oscar-nominated breakout turn in Winter’s Bone.
This sounds intriguing. Also it would be interesting to see if Lawrence can pull off an Icelandic accent.
Jennifer Lawrence can next be seen reprising her role as Katniss Everdeen this November 22nd in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
*Steven Spielberg also just announced plans to do an updated version of The Grapes of Wrath as well.
Thanks a bunch.
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