Jennifer Lawrence is in talks to star in Burial Rites, a murder trial movie set in Iceland in 1829.
Deadline is reporting that Jennifer Lawrence is in talks to star in Burial Rites, an adaptation of a real life murder trial that happened in Iceland in 1829.
Lawrence and her Hunger Games director Gary Ross are in talks with Lionsgate to make the movie together. This is the second project reported in the last three weeks that will reteam the pair. At the end of September, it was announced that Lawrence would star in an adaptation of the classic John Steinbeck novel East of Eden, directed by Ross. That adaptation is scheduled to play out over two films.
Burial Rites will be based on a novel of the same name from author Hannah Kent that was published only last month. Here’s the synopsis from Amazon:
Set against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes’s death looms, the farmer’s wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they’ve heard.
Jennifer Lawrence is beginning to show an exciting trend. With Lawrence once again teaming up with Ross, she is showing that she’ll gladly work with directors she has experience with and faith in. She began to show this earlier, as she’ll have a role in David O. Russell’s American Hustle, a role that was rewritten to be bigger after she was cast in it. Lawrence notably won her Academy Award for best actress under O. Russell’s direction.