Yesterday, Jennifer Lawrence tore the roof off the internet by penning an essay about gender discrimination and pay inequity in Hollywood. We’re all freezing now (because of the roof thing, remember), but it was worth it, because it was an epic essay that needed to be written, especially by somebody of J. Law’s caliber. But while we were all committing said essay to memory by reciting it slowly in front of our mirrors (…just me, or?) Lawrence was busy negotiating the hell out of some movie deals, just like she promised she would in her Lenny piece. According to Variety, Lawrence has “set her sights” on working with director Darren Aronofsky, and the two are currently in talks to film a mysterious “untitled indie.”
By “mysterious,” I mean that it’s not yet clear what Lawrence’s film with Aronofsky will be about, because this is Hollywood, and nobody wants to throw us entertainment journalists a bone. But we do know that Aronofsky wrote the film himself, and that most of Aronofsky’s female-centric films deal in some seriously dark sh*t—think Natalie Portman in Black Swan, or Jennifer Connelly in Requiem For A Dream. So it’s safe to assume that Lawrence’s “untitled indie” will engage in similar mindf*ckery, and perhaps a sentient tree or two.
It’s becoming more and more apparent that, at this point in her career, Lawrence is unafraid to speak her mind and make bold choices, whether that means writing a scathing critique of Hollywood, signing up for surprising projects, or even dropping out of them. (Recently, she exited both Richard Linklater’s The Rosie Project — which was developed with her in mind—and the film adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle.) It makes sense, too, that Lawrence — who’s almost finished with both the Hunger Games films and the X-Men franchise — would want to make a riskier film next, a film without related action figures and a built-in audience of screaming tweens.
Untitled Indie is currently without a distributor, but “insiders” tell Variety that Aronofsky is reaching out to actors to begin shooting in the spring.
