We've seen Jennifer Lawrence as a shape-shifting mutant with a driven agenda, a heroic competitor in a dystopian game and many more characters. Here she is as a young woman who uses all of her abilities to seduce and destroy. Watch the first trailer for Red Sparrow.
Directed by Francis Lawrence, and adapted from Jason Matthews' book by Justin Haythe, Red Sparrow finds Lawrence as ballet dancer Dominika. She and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future when Dominika suffers a career-ending injury.
She finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including American CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.
With Jeremy Irons, Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling and Mary-Louise Parker in the cast, Red Sparrow is due in UK cinemas on 2 March next year.
Joel Edgerton eyeing a role in Red Sparrow opposite Jennifer Lawrence