Jennifer Lawrence on the thirty fifth Annual GLAAD Media Awards held on Might 11, 2024 in New York Metropolis.
Photograph by Kristina Bumphrey/Selection by way of Getty Pictures
Jennifer Lawrence is ready to star in function Why Don’t You Love Me?, an adaptation of the Paul B. Rainey graphic novel.
A24 acquired the rights to Rainey’s sci-fi comedy, which follows an unhappily married couple that wrestle via their private {and professional} lives till they understand that their actuality just isn’t what it appears and there could also be options. He launched the novel in 2023 by way of writer Drawn & Quarterly.
Robert Funke, the creator behind the sequence On Turning into a God in Central Florida, will direct.
Lawrence will produce alongside Justine Ciarrocchi for Wonderful Cadaver, which was behind Sony comedy No Arduous Emotions. Lawrence and A24 lately introduced one other challenge — a homicide thriller based mostly on the Actual Housewives actuality franchise for Apple — and labored collectively on the Oscar-nominated drama Causeway, wherein she performed a navy veteran adjusting to life again dwelling. Lawrence has been nominated for 4 performing Oscars, successful lead actress for Silver Linings Playbook in 2013.
Midsommer filmmaker Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, and Emily Hildner of Sq. Peg may even produce Why Don’t You Love Me?. Rainey will government produce.
Funke is represented at CAA, Mosaic and Lichter Grossman; Rainey and his graphic novel are repped by Gersh; Wonderful Cadaver is repped by LBI.