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Jennifer Lawrence is teaming up as soon as once more with A24 for a film adaptation of “Why Don’t You Love Me?,” the darkly comedic 2023 graphic novel by Paul B. Rainey.
Robert Funke (“On Turning into a God in Central Florida”) is writing the screenplay, because the seek for a director is underway. Lawrence can be a producer alongside Justine Ciarrocchi for Wonderful Cadaver; Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner of Sq. Peg are additionally on board. Rainey government produces.
“Why Don’t You Love Me?” follows a depressing couple, Claire and Mark, struggling via their marriage whereas “feeling like one thing isn’t fairly proper of their actuality,” teases A24. The graphic novel has been described as a “pitch-black comedy about marriage, alcoholism, despair and mourning misplaced alternatives,” with stunning twists alongside the way in which.
Lawrence launched the manufacturing firm Wonderful Cadaver in 2018 and teamed with A24 for the discharge of its first movie, 2022’s “Causeway,” which landed Brian Tyree Henry an Oscar nomination for greatest supporting actor. Since then, Wonderful Cadaver has boarded Sahra Mani’s documentary “Bread & Roses,” about girls in Afghanistan and the position of the Taliban since 2021, and produced “No Exhausting Emotions,” an R-rated intercourse comedy that earned Lawrence a Golden Globe nod.
As not too long ago introduced, Lawrence may even star in “The Wives,” a “Actual Housewives”-inspired homicide thriller film for Apple Authentic Movies and A24. Lawrence and Ciarrocchi are producing with Wonderful Cadaver, and Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey are on board by way of their bb2 banner.
Funke is represented at CAA, Mosaic and Lichter Grossman. Rainey is represented by Gersh, who dealt with the deal for the e-book. Wonderful Cadaver is repped by LBI.