Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in a feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize reporter Teresa Carpenter’s non-fiction crime story Mob Girl. The actress will star as the mob wife turned police informant Arlyne Brickman with Paolo Sorrentino set to direct.
Brickman’s story sounds pretty fascinating. She grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City, always surrounded by mobsters. She was drawn to the glamorous lifestyle and ran errands for the mob as well as dating many of its members. Years later, the mob girlfriend became a police informant and major witness in the government’s case against the Colombo crime family.
Angelina Burnett (Halt and Catch Fire, The Americans) has written the script and Makeready, headed by Brad Weston, will handle studio duties on the film. Director Paolo Sorrentino is best known for creating the Jude Law-Diane Keaton-starrer The Young Pope and has directed 10 episodes of its followup The New Pope for HBO and Canal+.
