After a bit of a break, following “mother!” and “Red Sparrow,” Jennifer Lawrence is set for a comeback, of sorts, with Lila Neugebauer’s currently untitled directorial debut for A24, a PTSD drama that will likely turn up on the fall festival circuit, Paolo Sorrentino’s mafia informant drama “Mob Girl” and a newly announced film, this one directed by Adam McKay (“Vice” and “The Big Short”) and distributed by Netflix. No need to confuse this upcoming J-Law/McKay “comedy” with McKay’s other currently-in-the-works project, the Elizabeth Holmes biopic “Bad Blood.”
McKay has decided to bring Lawrence along for a movie which is being billed as his return to comedy, after the dramatic sparks of “The Big Short” and “Vice.” If you remember, McKay and Will Ferrell were the “bad boys” of comedy back in the early aughts, a director/actor team responsible for the likes of “Anchorman,” “Step Brothers” and “Talladega Nights.”
Deadline is reporting that the upcoming comedy McKay is doing with Lawrence will be titled “Don’t Look Up" and “tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth.”
“I’m so thrilled to make this movie with Jen Lawrence. She’s what folks in the 17th century used to call ‘a dynamite talent’,” McKay says. “And the fact that Netflix sees this movie as a worldwide comedy sets the bar high for me and my team in an exciting and motivating way.”
It is nice to see Jennifer Lawrence 'back'. I was apparently the only person on earth that really liked “Red Sparrow,” but between 2010 to 2017 she was the hottest thing since sliced bread in Hollywood, starring in “Winter’s Bone,” 3 “X-Men” movies, 3 “Hunger Games” movies, “Silver Linings Playbook,” and “American Hustle.”
Production on “Don’t Look Up” is set to begin this coming April and, if no speed bumps occur, could very well be streaming via Netflix by late/December 2020.