Jennifer Lawrence has an Oscar nomination in hand for playing a real-life entrepreneur in Joy, and it seems she's ready to stay in the biopic business for a potential new film. Lawrence is attached to star in Marita.
The film focuses on Marita Lorenz, who met and started an affair with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1959 when she was just 19. After falling pregnant and having an abortion, she left Cuba and joined an anti-communist movement in the US, where she was recruited by the CIA as someone who could potentially assassinate Castro, but obviously never went through with the plan.
In her vivid life, she also had an affair with a Venezuelan dictator, claimed she was involved with JFK's assassination and spied on diplomats for the FBI. She's still alive and has written two autobiographies, so you can see why she's being considered a prime subject for a film.
Eric Warren Singer, who co-wrote a previous Lawrence film, American Hustle, has pitched the script, which Sony snapped up and started developing. There's no director or anyone else attached yet, and it'll need a finished script before it goes anywhere, so don't expect it on screens soon. Besides, Lawrence is still a busy working actor, and most recently shot sci-fi tale Passengers opposite Chris Pratt. She'll next be seen in X-Men: Apocalypse, out May 19.