Here's an interesting filmmaking combo teaming up: [Jennifer Lawrence](http://Angelina Burnett) has signed on to star in Youth and The Young Pope director Paolo Sorrentino's new film, Mob Girl.
As you might expect from that title, mobsters have a small part to play in the movie, which will adapt a true-crime story by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Teresa Carpenter about the life of Arlyne Brickman, who married into the mafia and then... well, read the official synopsis.
"Growing up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City, Arlyne Brickman associated with mobsters. Drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle, she was soon dating “wise guys” and running errands for them; but after years as a mob girlfriend, Arlyne began to get in on the action herself — eventually becoming a police informant and major witness in the government’s case against the Colombo crime family." Yep, the old, girl-meets-made-man-girl-works-for-crime-family-girl-turns-mobsters-into-the-cops story.
Lawrence is on to play the lead, with Angelina Burnett adapting Carpenter's book Mob Girl: A Woman’s Life In The Underworld. All signs point to Lawrence working on this one once she finishes shooting an untitled drama by first-time director Lila Neugebauer.