Even though director Steven Spielberg has plenty of projects on the docket already, he’s picked up another one. It’s What I Do will give him the opportunity to work with Jennifer Lawrence.
The project has landed at Warner Bros. and is based on Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War. Lawrence will star, with Spielberg directing and Andrew Lazar producing.
Addario covered the war in Afghanistan and was one of the few female photographers in the male-dominated world of war photography, notes The Hollywood Reporter. She also covered conflicts in the Congo and Somalia.
Warner Bros. had several other actresses interested in the project, including Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon and Focus star Margot Robbie, notes TheWrap.
For Spielberg, this is the latest project he’s been attached to and it sounds like you never guarantee his involvement until shooting starts. He’s currently making a cold War thriller with Tom Hanks, which will be out before the end of the year. Then, he has to adapt Roald Dahl’s The BFG and was even linked to Thank You For Your Service.
He was supposed to work with Warner Bros. and Lazar in 2014 to make American Sniper, but he dropped out in August 2013. There’s also rumors that he wants to make Chris Pratt’s Indiana Jones reboot.
As for Lawrence, It’s What I Do is the latest nonfiction feature she’s signed on to. She’s currently making David O. Russell’s Joy and will reunite with her Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence on The Dive. Both films are based on true stories.
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