Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence has locked in her first new film since announcing she was taking a breather a year ago. While details are being kept under wraps, the film looks to be a return to the Oscar winner’s indie-scale roots.
Scott Rudin and Eli Bush are producing through their IAC Films division and its partnership with A24, with Lawrence and Justine Polsky also on the producing team through their newly formed company Excellent Cadaver. The untitled new film project, written by first-time screenwriter Elizabeth Sanders, will mark the feature debut of Lila Neugebauer, who has quickly ascended in the past few years to become one of the most exciting young New York stage directors. Neugebauer told The Hollywood Reporter,
“It’s an intimate film that wants to be close to the bone and wants to be quite personal,”
“It’s something that I’ve hoped to do and has been in the back of my mind for some time now. I directed my first episode of television last spring, on the Duplass Brothers’ HBO show Room 104. That was a really lovely opportunity to get behind the camera, because the throughline of that anthology show is that they’re all set in the same hotel room, so in a way, they’re sort of all one-act plays. It was a very natural fit.”
