Jennifer Lawrence, Paolo Sorrentino Team Up to Adapt 'Mob Girl' | THR News - video Dailymotion

'The Young Pope' filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino will direct the adaptation for Makeready.

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00:00You belong to them.

00:01They'll never let you go.

00:03I'll find a way.

00:04Jennifer Lawrence has lined up her next big movie.

00:07The Oscar-winning actress will star in and produce

00:09the true life mafia story, Mob Girl.

00:12Lawrence and the Young Pope director Paolo Sorrentino

00:14have teamed up to adapt the book by Teresa Carpenter.

00:17Mob Girl centers on Arlene Brickman,

00:18a woman who grew up among racketeers and mobsters

00:21on the Lower East Side of New York City.

00:23From dating the wise guy to then running errands for them,

00:25she became a mob girlfriend,

00:27who then wanted a piece of the action herself.

00:29She eventually became a police informant

00:31and major witness in the government's case

00:32against the Columbo crime family.

00:34The movie marks the first project

00:35under the recently announced first look film deal

00:37between Lawrence and Justine Polsky's production company

00:40Excellent Cadaver and Make Ready.

00:42Make Ready content studio founder Brad Weston said,

00:45seeing the story from a woman's point of view

00:46is a fresh and exciting approach

00:48to telling a classic mob story.

00:50Currently, Lawrence is shooting

00:51an untitled soldier drama for A24.

00:53All right, for more on this story, head to THR.com.

00:56Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

00:58I'm Tiffany Taylor.