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Jennifer Lawrence‘s dance card continued to refill on Tuesday, as A24 introduced that it has optioned Paul B. Rainey‘s graphic novel Why Don’t You Love Me?, tapping Lawrence to star and Robert Funke (On Turning into a God in Central Florida) to pen the function adaptation.
The information comes just a few weeks following phrase that Lawrence will produce and star in The Wives, a Actual Housewives-inspired homicide thriller to be co-produced by Apple Studios and A24, which Apple Authentic Movies landed in a extremely aggressive state of affairs.
Launched in 2023, the graphic novel is a comedy centered on a pair struggling by means of their marriage whereas feeling like one thing is just not fairly proper of their actuality. Producers on the movie will embrace Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi for Glorious Cadaver, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, and Emily Hildner for Sq. Peg, and A24. Rainey will function govt producer.
Coming off of a Golden Globe nomination for her position in Sony’s acclaimed intercourse comedy No Onerous Emotions, Lawrence previous to that starred reverse Brian Tyree Henry within the veteran drama Causeway, additionally from Apple and A24. The actress has strengthened ties with Apple lately, additionally lately seeing the studio purchase the documentary Bread & Roses, capturing the experiences of Afghanistan ladies’s underneath the Taliban since they took management of Kabul, for which she served as producer.
Funke is finest identified for co-creating the darkish comedy On Turning into a God in Central Florida, starring Kirsten Dunst, which premiered on Showtime in 2019.
Not too long ago securing a brand new funding from Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, valuing the corporate at $3.5B, A24 is coming off the discharge of Ti West’s MaXXXine and lately acquired Mice, a horror package deal that has David Bruckner set to direct from a script by Todd Spence and Zak Whitem a spec marking the duo’s first sale to a significant studio.
Lawrence and her Glorious Cadaver are repped by LBI Leisure and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Funke by CAA, Mosaic, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols; and Rainey by Gersh, which dealt with the deal for the e book.