Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Lawrence Looking to Team for Movie About Real-Life War Photographer

Jennifer Lawrence and Steven Spielberg in 2012
Jennifer Lawrence and Steven Spielberg in 2012

By Dave McNary

Warner Bros. has attached Jennifer Lawrence to star in director Steven Spielberg’s It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, sources confirm.

The studio won an auction Monday for the rights to the memoir by Lynsey Addario, the award-winning international photojournalist.

American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar is on board the drama.

Watch Katie Couric's interview with Lynsey Addario:

The project attracted multiple offers in the wake of an excerpt of Addario’s memoir appearing in the The New York Times Magazine.

Addario, who has traveled to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Africa, and Iraq, won the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008 and was part of the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.

ICM is repping the author.

Spielberg is in post-production on the untitled DreamWorks-Disney Cold War thriller, starring Tom Hanks as attorney James Donovan, which has been dated for Oct. 16. The studios have also set Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book The BFG for July 1, 2016.

Lawrence is currently shooting Joy for David O. Russell for a Christmas release by Fox. She’ll be seen next in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in November.

CAA reps Lawrence and Spielberg.

The news was first reported by Deadline.com.

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