Murtada here with some casting news. With commitments to her two franchises coming to an end soon, Jennifer Lawrence is getting busy considering all types of movies. November 20th brings The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 her 4th and last outing, for now, as Katniss Everdeen. Next summer’s X-Men Apocalypse is supposedly the last time we will see Lawrence as Mystique.
This week came news that she is attached to an adaptation of the book Red Sparrow about a Russian intelligence officer trained as a seductress and her handling of a rival CIA operative. This movie could re-team her with Francis Lawrence her first Hunger Games director. It’s a hot property in Hollywood that previously had director/actress combos of Darren Aronofsky/Natalie Portman and David Fincher/Rooney Mara interested.
More projects and some recent Lawrence quotes after the jump.
A couple of months ago we heard that Lawrence will play photographer Lynsey Addario in a Steven Spielberg directed bio-pic that chronicles Addario’s time in war ravaged Afghanistan, Somalia and the Congo. She’s also attached to Richard Linklater’s romantic comedy The Rosie Project, a love story between a socially awkward scientist and the titular character who’s “quite intelligent for a barmaid”. Before any of these projects come to fruition we will see JLaw teaming with Chris Pratt for Passengers a sci-fi love story directed by The Imitation Game’s Morten Tyldum. In addition there are many other projects that are announced for Lawrence then somehow are never heard of again. The Dive? East of Eden?
A Russian intelligence officer? A seasoned war photographer? A new variation on the manic pixie dream girl? Is there no end to Lawrence’s range. Never doubt Lawrence, after all who knew she had the miracle mop inventor in her somehow. Range aside, she’s the biggest movie star in the world and as she said recently to The New York Times “I can get movies fully greenlit”. However it would be nice if Hollywood had a little bit more imagination and offered some of these parts to other actresses of her generation, especially those who have proved how big their talent is.
To be fair Lawrence is far from the only actor who gets a pass at every hot script first. Just look at her X-Men co-star Michael Fassbender, hardly a week passes without a new project announced with his name. And Lawrence is aware that some of these parts might not entirely suit her. In the same Times interview, she said about being cast by David O. Russell as women much older than she is:
David gets visions. He’s in his own beautiful, amazing world. Those kinds of silly questions don’t really matter to him. It’s not like I was old enough for American Hustle. And I was way too young for Silver Linings. That’s why I almost didn’t get it”.
That quote is interesting when coupled with what Anne Hathaway said recently in another interview, this time to Glamour Magazine.
When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them…And now I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24-year-old get that part? I was that 24-year-old once, I can’t be upset about it, it’s the way things are”.
Wonder who Hathaway was thinking of when she said that.
Which of these projects are you most excited for? Or do you dream of a Hunger Games reboot?