Apparently, now is not the time to rest for Steven Spielberg. The original blockbuster director is lining up project after project. Later this year he'll release a Tom Hanks-starring espionage thriller, titled Bridge of Spies. Then he's got a live-action Roal Dahl adaptation of The BFG (which either stands for "The Big Friendly Giant" or "The Big Fucking Giant" due to your preference).
In addition to those undertakings it appears that the great one is placing his fingers on the pulse of millennials and going after this generation's biggest stars. Last month Spielberg said that if Chris Pratt were to become Indiana Jones, the mere presence of that galaxy guardian would be enough to make El Señor Spielbergo sign up to direct another whipped adventure. Now, he's also putting Jennifer Lawrence into his future movie holding corner.
JLaw will star in It's What I Do—a perfect sounding title for JLaw when she's in badass mode—about the Pulitzer Prize-winning career of photojournalist Lynsey Addario. And Lawrence will be in badass mode, playing a combat journalist who photographed the war zones of Libya, Afghanistan, and the Congo.
Warner Brothers, fresh off the resounding success of American Sniper, will distribute. But they'd be wise to not seize on any surging war trend and not re-title this American Journalist. By and large, America loves its soldiers, but they don't tend to love their journalists.
Lawrence is currently filming Joy, which will be released by Christmas 2015. Joy reunites JLaw with her American Hustle-Silver Linings Playbook helmer, David O. Russell, with whom she may—or may not—have had a dust-up with while shooting their dramedy about the inventor of the Miracle Mop, Joy Mangano.
